Dolby E

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Dolby E is a codec that is used to transport up to 8 channels of audio across traditional AES-3 cabling (AES-3 is the professional version of SPDIF). It is carried as a SMPTE-337M data burst. Dolby E also carries metadata such as downmixing information which is intended to be passed through to the final distribution encoder.

Dolby E is designed to match up with video frames to allow for easy cutting. Guard Bands are also present at the beginning and the end of the frame to reduce the risk of bad splicing causing problems.

There are 3 input bit depths of Dolby E: 16-bit, 20-bit and 24-bit. It is unknown whether 24-bit exists in the wild. 16-bit mode has a maximum of 6 channels, 20-bit mode has a maximum of 8 channels and 24-bit has an unknown number of channels.