DCP Supported Ingest Formats

DCP Supported Ingest Formats

The official supported file formats for ingesting content in the Dolby and GDC servers are EXT2 or EXT3, both of which are Linux formats.

The servers also support the following "Windows" formats:
      NTFS (preferred)
      FAT32

The servers will not support
      HFS (Native Mac format)
      ExFAT

Paragon Software makes a utility that we use with Windows machines to allow them to read various formats including EXT2/3/4.  They also make a Mac version which we haven't tried.  They are at:



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