The company also announced that it expects to release its Dolby Media Encoder SE (Stand-alone Edition) software product in the near future. Dolby Media Encoder offers encoding and job control capabilities in a client-server environment. Dolby Media Encoder SE provides a single-computer software encoding solution that offers the same level of encoding capabilities. Dolby plans to release Universal Binary versions of its Dolby Media Decoder and Dolby Media Tools later this year.

The Universal Binary update of Dolby Media Encoder and Dolby Media Encoder SE provides up to 57 percent faster encoding of Dolby Digital on Intel-based Macs when compared to the same tasks performed using the PowerPC versions running under Rosetta on Mactels, says Steve Venezia, manager, DVD/DTV Broadcast Support, Dolby Laboratories Users can also realize significant encoding improvements for Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, and MLP Lossless technologies, he adds.

The new products also feature added support for mobile-device Internet browsers, allowing users to remotely access and manage job queues. In addition, the updated Universal Binary apps will improve decoding performance for synchronous file playback of audio tracks with video with QuickTime.

Dolby Media Encoder is a non-real-time client-server application that includes up to three clients, enabling multiple operators to set up and submit jobs for encoding either locally or to a centralized facility server. It also includes a preview decoder for playback of source and encoded files for monitoring. The stand-alone version is a single-computer software product.

Dolby Media Decoder is a software version of the Dolby DP564 reference hardware decoder and is designed to run on a local computer. It decodes and monitors all supported Dolby codecs and Dolby consumer listening modes, and supports the Sony P2 9-pin protocol and QuickTime for synchronous file playback of audio tracks with video.

Dolby Media Tools enables users to repair or update previously encoded files without having to reencode. Its features include metadata editing, file trimming, timecode striping, and file concatenation. Contact Dolby Labs for pricing on its products.

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