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# IRIS Play FAQ

## General Overview

**What is Iris Play?**

Iris Play is a desktop reference player offering frame accurate media playback, SDI output support, Dolby format decoding, and annotation tools for review workflows.

**How does Iris Play differ from Iris Anywhere Play?**

Iris Anywhere Play is a cloud-based or virtually-deployed reference player offering frame accurate media playback via browser, supporting a wide range of formats and validation tools.

**Is Iris Play suitable for QC workflows?**

It is designed for reference playback and validation, not full technical QC.  
However, it supports the import of all the major automated QC platforms: Interra Baton, Venera Pulsar, Tektronix Aurora, Telestream Vidchecker, Telestream Cloud.

**What video files and codecs does it support?**  
Codecs                                     

- JPEG 2000 
- Uncompressed 
- PRORES 
- DNXHD 
- XDCAM 
- IMX D10 
- DV 
- DVCPRO 
- AVC-INTRA 
- MPEG2 
- MPEG4 / H264 
- XAVC 
- HEVC / H265 
- Windows Media and more

Wrappers 

- MXF
- MOV
- DPX
- IMF
- GXF
- AVI
- TIFF
- TS
- M2T
- M2TS
- MP4
- WMV
- WMA

**What audio file types does it support?**

- PCM
- AAC
- AC3
- MP2
- MP3
- Other compressed formats

**What caption and subtitle files are supported?**

- STL
- SCC
- TTML
- SRT
- WEBVTT
- DFXP
- EIA-608/708
- ITT
- XML
- PAC
- CAP
- FPC
- CSV
- Teletext
- SMPTE 428-7
- Spruce STL
- SAMI
- 3GPP
- TX3G
- SON 

**What organizations typically use Iris Play?**  
Studios, networks, distributors, post-houses and content creators that need reference asset playback and validation but don’t need the full measurement and scopes found in Iris QC Pro.

### **Installation Requirements**

**What are the desktop requirements for Iris Play?**

- 32 CPU threads
- Base CPU frequency of 2.8GHz. Turbo boost frequency 3.6GHz
- DDR3 @1600MHz or faster
- 32GB of RAM minimum (64GB RAM preferred)
- DirectX10 PCI-e v2.0 x16 graphics card minimum
- AJA Kona 4/5, Blackmagic Design DeckLink/12G,   
  Bluefish444 Supernova/Neutron/Kronos SDI cards are supported
- Windows 11 Pro x64

**Does it require any software installation?**  
Yes. Iris Play can be installed directly on a workstation with a license or the license and login can be administered by the free iris Admin Server software allowing floating licenses, SOO and Projec & collaboration features.

### **Pricing and Subscription**

**What does the Iris Admin Server software included with subscriptions support?**  
It centrally manages floating licenses, user accounts and secure logins, environmental profiles, and collaborative project access.

**What pricing models are available?**  
Iris Play is offered via subscription with usage-based tiers and enterprise bundles.

 

**Is pricing volume-dependent?**  
Yes. Large deployments with high playback throughput or concurrent users can qualify for discounted enterprise packages.

### **Functionality and Features**

**What are the primary and unique features of Iris Play?**

- Asset Metadata panel with QC Template checks
- Status Panel
- Audio level meters
- Audio router
- Playlists
- Add discreet sidecar audio & caption files to video
- Captions Overlay & Caption Viewer (1)
- Document Viewer (Import timecode markers)
- Import, Edit, Export, Segment and Annotation temporal metadata

Does Iris Play support Dolby?  
Yes, limited to the following:

- Dolby Atmos (E-AC-3)
- Dolby E
- Dolby Vision (HEVC stream decode)

Complete Dolby support is included with Iris Anywhere QC

**Does Iris Play support IMF, DCP or frame sequence playback?**  
Iris Play supports only standard IMF packages and does not support DCP or frame sequences, however all of these are supported in Iris QC Pro.

 

 

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