Dolby Digital/AC-3 MPEG PCM SPDIF

    Dolby Digital/AC-3 (Certified by Dolby Laboratories, Inc.)
    • Coding standard: ATSC A/52
    • Sampling rates: 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 32 kHz
    • Coding modes: 1+1, 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 2/1, 3/1, 2/2, 3/2
    • Multi-channel down-mixing
    • Re-matrixing to preserve Dolby Prologic encoding
    • Conformance: Group A (20 bit)
    MPEG
    • Coding standard: ISO11172-3, layers 1,2
    • Sampling rates: 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 32 kHz
    • Conformance: Highest level (16 bit)
    PCM
    • PCM modes for non-compressed audio data
    • Sampling rates: 48 kHz, 44.1 kHz, 32 kHz
    • I/O: 16-24 bit input PCM, 16-bit output PCM
    • Modes: PCM pass, Mono, Mono-L, Mono-R
    • Other mixing functions possible. All scale by PCM scale factor.
    SPDIF
    • Frames compressed MPEG or AC-3 data into SPDIF stream.
    • Standards: ATSC/A52 Annex B. , IEC 1967
    • SPDIF Pass through modes now available for MP3/AAC