The first reference decoder for Dolby TrueHD, the DP580 assists broadcasters and manufacturers in the adoption and deployment of all Dolby audio codecs. This latest in the family of Dolby professional broadcast products also performs comprehensive monitoring and logging functions. The Dolby Professional Reference Decoder DP580 replaces all the functionalities of the DP568, while adding new capabilities and features. As the first reference Dolby TrueHD decoder, the Dolby DP580 enables validation of associated Dolby TrueHD signals encoded in the Metadata-enhanced Audio Transmission (MAT) format. This type of validation has not been previously available for any testing environment. The Dolby DP580 also monitors the enhanced features of Dolby Digital Plus, including secondary audio bitstream mixing and 7.1-channel decoding. It provides a real-time reference tool for generating signals for Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby Digital.
- Monitoring capabilities for emulating set-top box behavior in QC environments
- Consumer Emulation mode for Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby multistream decoders
- Support for MPEG-2 transport stream with H.264 and MPEG-2 video decoding to verify audio/video synchronization
- Standard analog and digital audio and video outputs (including HDMI)
- Support for HDMI Audio Return Channel
- Error detection and information logging (pause burst, IEC 61937 data types, and consumer electronics control [CEC] message)
- Web-based user interface for easy selection and monitoring of the unique downmixing capabilities, listening modes, and compression modes of Dolby technologies
- Headphone output for confidence monitoring
- Web services API to enable automated test operations
