Audio Substream Headers

All substreams in private stream 1 begin with the substream number. The header described here immediately follows the substream number. This header is not part of either MPEG or the respective audio format standard. These are unique to DVD.

All methods

byte 0								byte 1								byte 2
7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
FrmCnt number of frames which begin in this packet								FirstAccUnit offset to frame which corresponds to PTS value offset 0 is the last byte of FirstAccUnit, ie add the offset of byte 2 to get the AU's offset The value 0000 indicates there is no first access unit

AC3 specific

AC3 has no additional information which is DVD specific.

example

offset	value	meaning
01f	80h	AC3 substream number (audio stream 0)
020	02	this packet contains the beginning of 2 audio frames
021	0001	the frame corresponding to PTS begins at packet offset 023
023	0B77	AC3 frame begins here (0B77 = AC3 sync word)

Additional info

AC3 frames are 32ms in length, or 2880 ticks of the 90KHz clock. The resulting frame rate is 31.25 fps.
Description of AC3 frame headers

DTS specific

DTS has no additional information which is DVD specific.

example

offset	value	meaning
01f	88h	DTS substream number (audio stream 0)
020	01	this packet contains the beginning of 1 audio frame
021	0001	the frame corresponding to PTS begins at packet offset 023
023	7FFE8001	DTS frame begins here (7FFE8001 = DTS sync word)

Additional info

DTS frames are 10.67ms in length, or 960 ticks of the 90KHz clock. This is exactly one third the duration of an AC3 frame.
DTS frames are engineered to fit almost exactly into DVD sectors, therefore they do not span packets. Instead the PES header is padded by 3 or 4 bytes (following PTS).
Brief description of DTS frame headers

LPCM specific

byte 3								byte 4								byte 5
7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0	7	6	5	4	3	2	1	0
emphasis	mute	reserved	FrmNum modulo 20 frame number of first frame					Quantization 0 = 16bps, 1 = 20bps, 2 = 24bps, 3 = illegal		Sample rate 0 = 48Ksps 1 = 96Ksps		reserved	channels-1			Dynamic Range

example

offset	value	meaning
01f	A0h	LPCM substream number (audio stream 0)
020	07	this packet contains the beginning of 7 audio frames
021	0004	the frame corresponding to PTS begins at packet offset 026
023	00	emphasis off, mute off, frame 0
024	01	16-bit, 48K sample rate, stereo
025	80h	dynamic range 128 (neutral)
026	0000	first channel 0 (left) sample

Additional info

LPCM frames are 150 ticks of the 90KHz clock long (1.67ms), giving a frame rate of 600 fps.
Frame size in bytes = (sample rate)*(quantization)*(number of channels)/4800.
At 48K sample rate there are 48000/600 = 80 samples per frame. For 16-bit stereo this equals 320 bytes per frame.
see also LPCM limitations

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