Dolby Program Optimizer VM600

Workflow Automation

The software counterpart of the versatile Dolby® DP600 and DP600-C hardware platforms, the Dolby Program Optimizer VM600 can simplify and automate your broadcast workflows. We designed it specifically for cable, satellite, IPTV, terrestrial TV, OTT, radio, and postproduction facilities.

Loudness Law Compliance

Responding to consumer concerns, many countries regulate broadcast loudness. The Dolby VM600 offers you a simple, effective, and scalable way to ensure compliance with CALM and with EBU loudness laws.

Comprehensive Processing Capabilities

The Dolby VM600 can encode, decode, convert, or transcode audio between a number of popular file formats alone or within media containers, using your own virtual infrastructure and storage systems. It can encode Dolby Atmos® content, and it also includes a high-quality single-step Dolby Digital to Dolby Digital Plus™ transcoder that preserves the metadata and minimizes tandem coding losses.

Media File Formats Supported

• GXF (SMPTE 360M), including single programs spanned over up to five files
• MXF operational patterns per SMPTE 390M (OP-Atom)
• SMPTE 378M (OP-1a)
• SMPTE 391M (OP-1b with internal essence file formats only)
• MXF container (essence) support per SMPTE 379M (GC)
• SMPTE 381M (GC-MPEG)
• SMPTE 383M (GC-DV minus support for audio essence interleaved in DV)
• SMPTE 382M (GSC-AESBWF)
• SMPTE 386M (IMX with D-10 audio)
• MPEG-2 program stream
• MPEG-2 single program transport stream (multiple audio essences supported)

Media Server Platforms Supported

Omneon® MediaDeck™ v6.3, Harmonic® Spectrum™ v6.3

Linear Audio Types Supported

• WAV, including multiple mono, broadcast, and multichannel WAV files with or without a Dolby audio metadata WAV chunk, as interleaved or discrete
• AIFF, including multichannel as interleaved or discrete files
• 16-, 20-, and 24-bit PCM (within any of the listed media file formats above)

Coded Audio Types Supported


Dolby Digital Plus (E-AC-3), Dolby Digital (AC-3), Dolby E, MPEG-1 LII

Additional Processing Engines Supported 


• Dolby Pro Logic II encoding

• Proprietary two-channel to 5.1-channel upmixing

Loudness Estimation/Correction Algorithm(s)

• Dialogue Intelligence™, patented
• Proprietary coded audio loudness correction algorithm, patented
• ITU-R BS.1770-1, ITU-R BS.1770-2, ITU-R BS.1770-3, ITU-R BS.1770-4
• EBU R128 audio loudness measurement
• Loudness logging: Short-term, long-term, sample peak, true peak, dialogue level, integrated (non-dialogue) level 

System Requirements

The Dolby VM600 runs in a virtual machine environment and can be deployed in either VMware® vCenter clustered servers or as a stand-alone virtual machine with the VMware Workstation™ application.

File System Protocols


FTP, SAMBA/CIFS, and SFTP

Third-Party API


Provided as a web service utilizing Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) over HTTP