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Convention Paper

The ISO/MPEG-Audio Codec: A Generic Standard for Coding of High Quality Digital Audio

Authors: Stoll, Gerhard; Brandenburg, Karlheinz

AES Convention 92 · Paper 3336 · March 1992

Abstract

The standardization body ISO/IEC/JTC1/ SC2/WG11 (Moving Pictures Expert Group, MPEG) is drafting a standard for compressing the high bit-rate of moving pictures and associated audio up to 1.5 Mbit/s. This paper describes the audio part of the proposed standard. Three layers of the audio coding scheme with increasing complexity and performance were defined. These layers were developed in collaboration mainly with AT&T, CCITT, FhG/University of Erlangen, Philips, IRT, and Thomson Consumer Electronics. The generic coding system is suitable for different applications, such as storage on inexpensive storage media or transmission over channels with limited capacity (e.g. Digital Audio Broadcasting or ISDN audio transmission).

Details

Published in
AES Convention 92
AES Convention
92
Paper number
3336
Publication date
March 6, 1992
Session subject
New Techniques in Transmission
Affiliation
University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany ; Institut fur Rundfunktechnik, GmbH., Munchen, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper