Audio Formats

this page covers the audio modes that different models support, recommended audio modes, and additional notes supported audio xc5, xd5, hd5, xt5, ls5 the audio modes supported by these player models are listed below container brand name audio codec channels extension support proprietary (dolby® digital / ac3) dolby® digital / ac3 compressed, lossy ac3 5 1 ac3 passthrough wav / pcm audio 16 24bit, 32 192khz (f32be, f32le, f64be, f64le, s16be, s16le, s24be, s24le, s32be, s32le, s8, u16be, u16le, u24be, u24le, u32be, u32le, u8) none uncompressed none 2 8 	 wav 2 channel decoded output to hdmi, optical/spdif and analog mp3 none compressed mpeg 2 audio layer iii 2 mp3 2 channel decoded output to hdmi, optical/spdif and analog mp2 none compressed mpeg 1 audio layer ii or mpeg 2 audio layer ii 2 mp2 2 channel decoded output to hdmi, optical/spdif and analog aac / aac latm none compressed advanced audio coding (aac) codec, aac low overhead audio transport multiplex (latm) 2 m4a, m4v, mp4 2 channel decoded output to hdmi, optical/spdif and analog mp2ts/ts none compressed mpeg 1 audio layer ii or mpeg 2 audio layer ii or mpeg 2 audio layer iii or aac or ac3 2 ts 2 channel decoded output to hdmi, optical/spdif and analog mov none compressed or uncompressed pcm, aac, ac3, mp3 2 mov 2 channel decoded output to hdmi, optical/spdif and analog ogg none compressed ogg vorbis (similar quality to mp3) 2 ogg, ogz 2 channel decoded output to hdmi, optical/spdif and analog flac (free lossless audio codec) none compressed codec by xiph org 2 flac 2 channel decoded output to hdmi, optical/spdif and analog au335 container audio codec channels max bit rate extension support support method proprietary (dolby atmos™) n/a a metadata format (not a compression technology) n/a mp4, ac3, ec3 arc/earc (passthrough) brightauthor\ connected, brightscript proprietary (dts™) compressed, lossy ac3 (perhaps others) 5 1 1 5 mb/s mp4, tbd arc/earc (passthrough) brightauthor\ connected (tbd), brightscript (tbd) proprietary (dolby digital plus™ / eac3) compressed, lossy eac3, others 7 1 3 mb/s mp4, ec3 arc/earc (passthrough) brightauthor\ connected (if ac3, ec3), brightscript proprietary (dolby® digital / ac3) compressed, lossy ac3, others 5 1 504 kb/s mp4, ac3, ec3 arc/earc (passthrough) brightauthor\ connected (if ac3, ec3), brightscript wav aka pcm audio (analog 16 24bit, 32 96 khz, digital 16 24bit, 32 192khz) uncompressed none 2 8 na wav analog out (l/r only); arc/earc (earc supports up to 8 channels) brightauthor\ connected, brightscript mp3 compressed mpeg 2 audio layer iii 2 na mp3 analog out, arc/earc brightauthor\ connected, brightscript mp2 compressed mpeg 1 audio layer ii or mpeg 2 audio layer ii 2 na mp2 analog out, arc/earc brightscript m4a/aac compressed or uncompressed pcm or (mpeg 4 part 14) aka advanced audio coding (aac) codec, audio only 2 na m4a analog out, arc/earc brightauthor\ connected, brightscript m4v/aac compressed or uncompressed pcm or (mpeg 4 part 14) aka advanced audio coding (aac) codec, may have drm 2 na m4v analog out, arc/earc brightscript mp4/aac compressed or uncompressed pcm or (mpeg 4 part 14) aka advanced audio coding (aac) codec, often has video 2 na mp4 analog out, arc/earc brightscript mp2ts/ts compressed or uncompressed pcm or mpeg 1 audio layer ii or mpeg 2 audio layer ii 2 na ts analog out, arc/earc brightscript mov compressed or uncompressed pcm or mpeg4 2 na mov analog out, arc/earc brightscript ogg compressed ogg vorbis (similar quality to mp3) 2 na ogg, ogz none brightauthor\ connected, brightscript flac (free lossless audio codec) compressed codec by xiph org 2 na analog out, arc/earc brightauthor\ connected, brightscript series 4 container brand name audio codec channels max bit rate extension analog support hdmi® supported? proprietary (dolby atmos™) dolby atmos™ n/a a metadata format (not a compression format) n/a mp4, ac3, ec3 no passthrough proprietary (dts™) dts™ compressed, lossy ac3 (perhaps others) 5 1 1 5 mb/s mp4, tbd no passthrough proprietary (dolby digital plus™ / eac3) dolby digital plus™ / eac3 compressed, lossy eac3, others 7 1 3 mb/s mp4, ec3 no passthrough proprietary (dolby® digital / ac3) dolby® digital / ac3 compressed, lossy ac3, others 5 1 504 kb/s mp4, ac3, ec3 no passthrough wav aka pcm audio (analog 16 24bit, 32 96 khz), (digital 16 24bit, 32 192khz) none uncompressed none 2 8 na wav yes (l/r only) yes (up to 8 channels) mp3 none compressed mpeg 2 audio layer iii 2 na mp3 yes yes mp2 none compressed mpeg 1 audio layer ii or mpeg 2 audio layer ii 2 na mp2 yes yes m4a/aac none compressed or uncompressed pcm or (mpeg 4 part 14) aka advanced audio coding (aac) codec, audio only 2 na m4a yes yes m4v/aac none compressed or uncompressed pcm or (mpeg 4 part 14) aka advanced audio coding (aac) codec, may have drm 2 na m4v yes yes mp4/aac none compressed or uncompressed pcm or (mpeg 4 part 14) aka advanced audio coding (aac) codec, often has video 2 na mp4 yes yes mp2ts/ts none compressed or uncompressed pcm or mpeg 1 audio layer ii or mpeg 2 audio layer ii 2 na ts yes yes mov none compressed or uncompressed pcm or mpeg4 2 na mov yes yes ogg none compressed ogg vorbis (similar quality to mp3) 2 na ogg, ogz no no flac (free lossless audio codec) none compressed codec by xiph org 2 na yes yes more player format information xtx44, xdx34 flac codec (with the ogg file format) opus codec xtx43, xdx33/32, hdx24/23/22, ls424/423, 4kx42 flac and vorbis codecs (with the ogg file format) hd600 mp3 audio files as stereo or mono at a 48khz sampling rate hd2000 mp3 audio files as stereo or mono at a 48khz or 44khz sampling rate wav audio files as stereo or mono dolby digital (ac3) 5 1 audio in a video file (decode or raw pass through) pcm audio in a video file (lpcm) recommended formats aac audio in h 264 video (cbr only) mp3 audio files as stereo or mono at a 48khz or 44khz sampling rate (mpeg1/mpe2 video), with a maximum bit depth of 16 bits, and a maximum bit rate of 320kbit/s wav audio files as stereo or mono we recommend a maximum bit depth of 24 bits at a sampling rate of 96khz, 48khz, or 44 1khz (except for the hdx20, hdx10, and au320, which may require a lower bit depth) m4a and aac audio files (note that if you are using brightauthor, you must be on version 4 3 0 x or later and these formats are not supported in bsn presentations) notes to play videos with surround sound, you must encode an ac3 audio layer along with an video layer in a supported codec and format all tracks must have the same sampling rate, or you must enable the docid\ ps 4gxslstoqhwbvlzslo feature, if you plan to output multiple audio tracks simultaneously (from either audio or video files) series 4 and earlier players do not decode surround sound (ac3) audio, but the audio can be passed through to a decoding device over hdmi of spdif if you are using adobe premiere to encode the video with the surcode codec for audio, ensure that surcode is in bluray mode, not dolby digital mode two channel pcm and aac currently requires specific settings and a plugin for brightauthor classic and brightauthor\ connected, or else the output will be stereo down mix because they're handled in the "multichannel" output routing which currently isn't exposed in the ui see https //brightsign box com/s/ni3dn4eztw2jjr4sgo14jpgjkigj36jj and note that audio that the player can decode with 2 or fewer channels is routed as normal "stereo" audio audio the player cannot decode, regardless of channel count, is routed as "compressed" audio audio the player can decode with 3 or more channels is routed as "multichannel" audio and that's where the ui doesn't match the output possibilities the pass pass throughthrough option currently routes only "compressed" audio through to the output "multichannel" audio isn't affected and therefore gets down mixed to stereo and output the plugin enables "multichannel" audio to go out through hdmi when in fixed audio mode we do not decode dolby ac3, but dolby digital (ac3) 5 1 audio can be used in an mpeg2 or mov video (pass through over hdmi or toslink with an expander) other multichannel audio formats may work as pass through, but they are not officially supported dts audio in the ts (transport stream) video container can be used as pass through dts in other containers (mov, mp4, mkv) are not currently supported the xtx44 currently does not support dts audio in any container brightauthor classic version 8 0 73 fixes a bug that caused ac3 audio to play back louder than expected gefen hdmi to hdmi plus audio converter, (sku gtv hdmi 2 hdmiaud, upc 845344056111) only supports multichannel analog output for lpcm 5 1 audio input it does not output analog for compressed audio formats