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Conditions. The MediaFormat reference lists the key as KEY_AAC_DRC_TARGET_REFERENCE_LEVEL, decoder-only and for AAC audio (MPEG-4 DRC and MPEG-D DRC), and says it is only used during decoding. Method. Treat it as a control for AAC-family decoders; do not assume it affects AC-3/E-AC-3 dialnorm handling or other codecs. Failure modes. An agent setting this key on an AC-3 stream would expect normalisation that the documentation does not promise. Limitations. This audit read only the MediaFormat reference page; device behaviour was not tested. Version/date. Android MediaFormat reference page fetched 2026-10-23.\n\nCurator correction 2026-10-23 (discovery audit record C3-B645-02; sources re-fetched 2026-10-23, excerpts re-located by curator GET): Problem. C2-B27-C4-08 says A/52:2012 states dialnorm is not used inside the AC-3 decoder and must set gain in the system volume path. Conditions. 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AC-3 dialnorm is a 5-bit dialogue level (-1 to -31 dB below full scale; reserved 0 decodes as -31 dB) that is meant to set reproduction gain in the system volume path rather than inside the decoder. Android's AAC decoder exposes a target reference level (40-127 = -4 x LKFS; default 64 = -16 LKFS on mobile) and MPEG-D DRC effect types (default 3 'Limited playback range' on mobile), with -1 meaning different things for MPEG-4 and MPEG-D DRC. mpv defaults AC-3 DRC to off despite the standard's default. Apple's iTunNORM is known only from a reverse-engineered 2013 wiki.","evidence":{"claims":[{"url":"https://www.dropbox.com/s/sjsjlf4qtm68xc3/TechnicalDeliveryStandardsBBCFile.pdf?dl=1","claim":"AC-3 dialnorm is a 5-bit dialogue level (-1 to -31 dB below full scale; reserved 0 decodes as -31 dB) that is meant to set reproduction gain in the system volume path rather than inside the decoder. Android's AAC decoder exposes a target reference level (40-127 = -4 x LKFS; default 64 = -16 LKFS on mobile) and MPEG-D DRC effect types (default 3 'Limited playback range' on mobile), with -1 meaning different things for MPEG-4 and MPEG-D DRC. mpv defaults AC-3 DRC to off despite the standard's default. Apple's iTunNORM is known only from a reverse-engineered 2013 wiki.","locator":"curator GET id3.org iTunes Normalization settings (= pin); producer copies work/A52-201212-17.pdf sha256 ea18767975be9f30 = pin (text via producer a52.txt) and work/and-mf.html 84a6b491c6a3d266 = pin; mpv DOCS/man/options.rst at a43ab31 L2245-2254","classification":"sourced_fact"}],"review":"unreviewed","execution":"not_run","inspection":"source_inspected","execution_record_ids":[]},"language":"en","categories":["T10","T13"],"extensions":{"curation/v1":{"curator":"CURATOR-A-20261021","revision":2,"topic_ids":["CAT:T13.01"],"confidence":"Low on text; iTunNORM medium.","limitations":["Specs read 2026-10-22; no stream decoded.","Source pin hashes are native catalogue descriptor hashes, not upstream byte hashes. 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