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DDP84
Multi stream Dolby Digital Plus and Pro encoder
with Dolby E decoder.
Installation and Operation manual
Страница 1: ...Committed DDP84 Multi stream Dolby Digital Plus and Pro encoder with Dolby E decoder Installation and Operation manual...
Страница 2: ...aat 55 NL 5126 BB Gilze The Netherlands Phone 31 0 161 85 04 50 Fax 31 0 161 85 04 99 E mail Info axon tv Web www axon tv TECHNICAL MANUAL DDP84 Multi stream Dolby Digital Plus and Pro encoder with Do...
Страница 3: ...ct to extremely high or low temperatures NEVER operate this product in an explosive atmosphere Warranty Axon warrants their products according to the warranty policy as described in the general terms...
Страница 4: ...A Quick Start When powering up Default settings Changing parameters and settings Front Panel Control Example of changing parameter using Front Panel control Synapse Setup Software Menu Structure Exam...
Страница 5: ...cal control panel is also used to back up and restore card settings Please refer to the RRC18 RRC10 RRC04 RRS18 and RRS04 manuals for a detailed description of the local control panel the way to set u...
Страница 6: ...mature failure from components mounted on the board Locating the card The Synapse card can be placed vertically in an SFR18 frame or horizontally in an SFR08 or SFR04 frame Locate the two guide slots...
Страница 7: ...incoming meta data program streams Changing settings and parameters The front panel controls or Cortex can be used to change settings An overview of the settings can be found in chapter 5 6 and 7 of t...
Страница 8: ...s that it current setting is Auto Pressing the selects the settings item shown in this example SDI Format Pressing or will change to a different setting eg Mode H Delay The display changes to indicate...
Страница 9: ...a GUI The software has an intuitive structure following that of the module that it is controlling For operation of Cortex please refer to the Cortex help files press F1 in any window Menu Structure Ex...
Страница 10: ...y Digital Plus encoder It will support the following encoding algorithms Up to 4 times 2 0 Dolby Digital Plus outputs 5 1 Dolby Digital Plus 2 0 Dolby Digital Plus Dolby Pro Logic II Individual offset...
Страница 11: ...le to use an external signal to lock to In that case you are referred to the setting AES1 Locks to the AES EBU signal on input 1 AES5 Locks to the AES EBU signal on input 5 Ref1 The uppermost B B refe...
Страница 12: ...s1 2 First physical input can be delayed in bypass mode aes3 4 Second physical input can be delayed in bypass mode aes5 6 Third physical input can be delayed in bypass mode aes7 8 Fourth physical inpu...
Страница 13: ...nes and blocks that are marked red in the following schematic are done by this setting Dolby_CH_1 Dolby_CH_8 With these items you can select which source will be used to fill Dolby channels 1 till 8 P...
Страница 14: ...allow you to gain the audio for each individual Dolby channel in a range from 60dB to 12 dB in steps of 0 25 dB 999dB mutes this channel Default is 0dB The lines and blocks that are marked red in the...
Страница 15: ...elay of the AES1 2 till AES7 8 channels in bypass mode when Out_1 till Out_4 are set to AES1 2 AES3 4 AES5 6 or AES7 8 can be delayed in a range of 0 to 1300 ms Default is 0ms The lines and blocks tha...
Страница 16: ...he decoded Dolby E channels Dolby E You can also set this to Auto meaning it will automatically switch to the input where a valid signal is available with Dolby E as priority By default it is set to A...
Страница 17: ...g the bitstream input either a physical Dolby digital input on input 5 or a Dolby digital input via the Synapse bus This signal is converted to Dolby Digital Plus when using these settings In case the...
Страница 18: ...ook as follows b This settings creates one normal stereo Pro Logic II output on encoder out 2 and one normal 2 0 DD output on encoder out 3 This normal 2 0 DD stream is encoded out of the EAS inputs a...
Страница 19: ...When the output is changed to Dolby 2 0 it will automatically use a bitrate of 128 kbps DD_Man Normal Dolby Digital with a manually set bitrate refer to Enc1 DD _Man Enc4 DD _Man to set the bitrate D...
Страница 20: ...ther words 5 1 32 kbps 208 kbps 576 kbps 40 kbps 216 kbps 640 kbps 48 kbps 224 kbps 704 kbps 56 kbps 232 kbps 768 kbps 64 kbps 240 kbps 832 kbps 72 kbps 248 kbps 896 kbps 80 kbps 256 kbps 960 kbps 88...
Страница 21: ...Dolby http www dolby com assets pdf tech_library 18_Metadata Guide pdf Center_mix This setting indicates the level shift applied to the center channel when adding to the left and right outputs 0dB 1 5...
Страница 22: ...are in external program 1 as well as overwrite others with a custom set value This can not be done when this setting is set to just A to H then you can not use external program streams so when MxA ti...
Страница 23: ...Choices are between external program Ext_Meta only usable when the MD enc1 till MD enc4 are set to MxA till MxH or a manual set dialogue level via the card s own metadata settings Int_Meta Dialogue L...
Страница 24: ...adata settings in the external program Ext_meta only usable when the MD_enc1 till MD_enc4 are set to MxA till MxH Default setting is enable Bitstrm Bitstream describes the audio service contained with...
Страница 25: ...ervice are mixed tighter requires special decoders Commentary This is typically a single channel program intended to convey additional commentary that can be optionally decoded along with the main aud...
Страница 26: ...olby Surround Lt Rt program that requires Pro Logic decoding Decoders can use this flag to automatically switch on Pro logic decoding as required Not indic Not Indicated Not Srnd Not Dolby surround th...
Страница 27: ...eft and right outputs when downmixing to a Lo Ro output When Extended BSI parameters are active this parameter is used and the Center Mix Level parameter in the universal parameters is not 3dB 1 5dB 0...
Страница 28: ...by Digital encoder prior encoding This parameter is not carried to the consumer decoder It is used to remove DC offsets in the program audio and would only be switched off in exceptional circumstances...
Страница 29: ...r in SPL that the front channels The consequence is that signal levels on tape are 3dB louder Therefore to convert to a consumer mix from theatrical calibration it is necessary to reduce the surround...
Страница 30: ...tatus can be NA no input detected PCM incoming signal is standard PCM format DolbyD input is Dolby Digital or DolbyE input is Dolby E Encoders The status of Dolby encoders is shown in this status item...
Страница 31: ...n Event will be generated at the priority or the audio carrier is falling away or audio data is in the range of 0 dBFS and 1 dBFS or the Encoder status is in error Reference Reference can be selected...
Страница 32: ...nt Menu Item Tag Description Announcements 0 or NA 0 or NA Announcing of report and control values Audio Data 01hex AUDIO_ERROR 81hex AUDIO_OK Reference Status 02hex REF_LOSS 82hex REF_RETURN referenc...
Страница 33: ...FERENCE This LED indicates the presence of a valid reference signal and that the DDP84 is locked to the master card DATA ERROR This led indicates different types of errors if there is an error in the...
Страница 34: ...34 9 Block Schematic...
Страница 35: ...sed with the following back plane BPL08 AES EBU 1 2 INPUT AES EBU 3 4 INPUT AES EBU 5 6 INPUT AES EBU 7 8 INPUT BITSTREAM INPUT DOLBY DIGITAL PLUS OR DOLBY E DOLBY DIGITAL PLUS OUTPUT 1 DOLBY DIGITAL...
Страница 36: ...rial Port Pin Outs 1 GPI 1 2 TX asynchronous data out 3 RX asynchronous data in 4 GPI 2 5 GPI 4 6 Ground 7 TX asynchronous data out 8 RX asynchronous data in 9 GPI 3 1 D sub Configuration 2 3 4 5 6 7...
Страница 37: ...e creating a custom designed cable which can be used to either input or output metadata on one cable you should split your positive to both pin 2 and pin 3 and your negative to both pin 7 and pin 8 Th...
