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821116: AMP2-16V Series User Guide
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Chapter 5 Menu List
Dolby Decoder Configuration Menu
Or, while selecting metadata to appear on the main screens.
• Decoder Source: Rotating this knob selects the Dolby bitstream
source to be decoded
• Any AES pair,
• Any de-embedded AES pair from an SDI input,
• Any TOSLINK/SPDIF input
When you select any one of these sources, the Dolby D/E Card is
locked to that source and cannot be used on other sources.
However, you can select the Dolby Zoom Select source instead.
This frees the Dolby decoder card to be used by any Dolby Zoom
hot key. The system will dynamically assign it to any source that
must be decoded, depending on which Dolby Zoom hot key you
press.
• Pro-16 Mode Channel: In the early days of Dolby, Pro-16 Mode
allowed you to encode two different programs simultaneously, one
Dolby D bitstream on the AES left channel, and one on the right
channel. This mode has largely fallen out of use; but the AMP2-16V
is still capable of monitoring it, should the need arise.
The Pro-16 Mode channel control simply selects one of the two AES
channels to decode. More recently, however, the incoming stream
will be Dolby Digital 32-bit where both channels are used for one
stream and the Pro-16 Mode channel parameter is ignored.
• Dolby E Program: A Dolby E bitstream can contain up to eight
separate audio programs with metadata. This control selects the
program to monitor, both audio and metadata. It also selects the
Configuration Selection
Menu
Main Screen
Menu
Configure Main
Screen
Main Screen
Configuration Menu
Metadata
Select
Metadata Select Menu
Metadata Source
Dolby Decoder
Configuration Menu