Description

SMPTE RDD 6 – Television – Description and Guide to the Use of the Dolby E Audio Metadata Serial Bitstream

Dolby Laboratories has developed a serial communication protocol that is used to transfer audio metadatabetween various products manufactured by Dolby. This document describes the types and function of thevarious metadata fields carried in the serial bitstream so that others interested in communicating with variousDolby® E and Dolby Digital audio codecs and associated equipment may do so.

Each metadata element is classified as either a Professional or Consumer type of metadata. The Reservedelements are meaningless to the user but must not be changed, and must be passed on to preserve thestructure and timing of the bitstream. Each of the Professional or Consumer elements is further classified aseither a Read Only or as a Read & Write element. Its function is described, and permissible operations onthose elements are discussed.

Corrections to Tables 7-12, 7-13 and 7-14 made on March 6, 2009