digital cinema package (D-Cinema) (DCP)
In the concept created by the Digital Cinema Initiative( DCI) for the processing and transmission of image and audio data, the various data - image data, audio data, subtitles, captions - are processed together in a packaging circuit to form the DCP data stream. The individual data streams originate from the respective Digital Cinema Distribution Master (DCDM) and are compressed, encrypted and packaged in the overall stream to form the Digital Cinema Package (DCP).