Broadcast Wave Format

The preservation master audio files are created to international standard 24 bit / 96 KHz Broadcast Wave format.

Broadcast Wave Format (BWF)

DC8 also included file support for Broadcast Wave Formats (BWF), Flac, and Ogg Vorbis.

See European Broadcasting Union: Specification of the Broadcast Wave Format (EBU Technical document 3285, July 1997).

The only tagging system in wide usage for WAV is the Broadcast Wave Format, stored as a RIFF chunk.

BWF (Broadcast Wave Format) is a standard audio format created by the European Broadcasting Union as a successor to WAV.

Frame CRCs, and Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) output was added for Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) use.

Broadcast Wave Format (BWF) is an extension of the popular Microsoft WAVE audio format and is the recording format of most file-based non-linear digital recorders used for motion picture, radio and television production.