A question we hear a lot is, "What happens if I have guard band problems?"
Dolby E encoded audio uses a frame-based structure. The position of the frames of audio and frames of video within the file must be corrected aligned for playback. Dolby specify a "guard band," which is a small null band around the 'top' of the audio within the frame. This allows error-free cut-style editing and video switching. However, if the audio starts to early or too late, this will cause and error in the subsequent Dolby E Decoding and Audio may get muted. This is clearly not desirable for Playout.
A frequent request is to measure the guard band and report when it is out of specification and subsequently correct it.
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