audioContent

Description

An audioContent element describes the content of one component of a programme (e.g. background music), and references one or more audioObject elements to tie the content to its format. This element includes loudness metadata.

Example

<audioContent audioContentID="ACO_1001"
              audioContentName="Music"
              audioContentLanguage="en">
  <audioObjectIDRef>AO_1001</audioObjectIDRef>
  <audioObjectIDRef>AO_1002</audioObjectIDRef>
  <loudnessMetadata loudnessMethod="ITU-R BS.1770" loudnessRecType="EBU R128">
    <integratedLoudness>-23.0</integratedLoudness>
  </loudnessMetadata>
  <dialogue nonDialogueContentKind="2">0</dialogue>
</audioContent>

Attributes

Attribute	Description	Example	Required
audioContentId	ID of the content	ACO_1001	Yes
audioContentName	Name of the content	Music	Yes
audioContentLanguage	Language of the content	en	Optional

Sub-elements

Sub-element	Description	Example	Quantity
audioObjectIDRef	Reference(s) to audioObject(s)	AO_1001	1...*
loudnessMetadata	Measured loudness of the content		0 or 1
dialogue	Specifies the type of the content (non dialogue, dialogue, mixed)		0 or 1

dialogue

This optional sub-element specifies the kind of content that is included in the parent audioContent. The dialogue sub-element can take the values 0 (no dialogue), 1 (pure dialogue) or 2 (mixed). It has an attribute that specifies the type of content using defined lists (enumerators) of content kinds. The attribute is dependent on the value of the dialogue sub-element.

Value of dialogue	Attribute	Description
0	nonDialogueContentKind	ID of the contained content kind (enumerator, see specification below)
1	dialogueContentKind	ID of the contained content kind (enumerator, see specification below)
2	mixedContentKind	ID of the contained content kind (enumerator, see specification below)

Dialogue types

nonDialogueContentKind	Description
0	undefined
1	music
2	effect

dialogueContentKind	Description
0	undefined
1	(storyline) dialogue
2	voiceover
3	spoken subtitle
4	audio description/visually impaired
5	commentary
6	emergency

mixedContentKind	Description
0	undefined
1	complete main
2	mixed
3	hearing impaired