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Delayless Mixing - On the Benefits of MPEG-4 AAC-ELD in High Quality Communication Systems

Authors: Albert, Tobias; Ekstrand, Per; Geiger, Ralf; Henn, Fredrik; Lutzky, Manfred; Przioda, Daniel; Ruoppila, Vesa; Schmidt, Markus; Schnell, Markus; Tarnes, Erlend

AES Convention 124 · Paper 7337 · May 2008

Abstract

Tele- and video conferencing systems for modern business communication are managed by central hubs, so-called multipoint control units (MCU). One major task of these units is the mixing of audio streams from the participating sites. This is traditionally done by decoding the streams, mixing in time domain and then re-encoding of the mixed signals. This requires additional processing power, leads to increased delay and degraded audio quality. The paper demonstrates how the recently standardized MPEG-4 Enhanced Low Delay AAC (AAC-ELD) codec offers a solution to these problems by efficient and delayless mixing in the
transform domain of the codec.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 124
AES Convention
124
Paper number
7337
Publication date
May 6, 2008
Session subject
Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding
Affiliation
Fraunhofer IIS;Coding Technologies;TANDBERG (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper