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Convention Paper

MPEG-2 NBC Audio-Stereo and Multichannel Coding Methods

Authors: Johnston, James D.; Herre, Jürgen; Davis, Mark; Gbur, Uwe

AES Convention 101 · Paper 4383 · November 1996

Abstract

The paper discusses the stereo and multichannel coding methods introduced into MPEG-2 NBC. The first method is pairwise stereo coding using both mid/side (M/S) and intensity stereo (IS) coding operating on individual scale-factor bands. Further accommodations for multichannel audio include the extension of intensity stereo to multiple channels, identification of symmetric pairs of audio signals in the bit stream, and explicit noise coding for down-mix channels.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 101
AES Convention
101
Paper number
4383
Publication date
November 6, 1996
Session subject
Low Bit-Rate Audio Coding
Affiliation
AT&T Labs, Murray Hill, NJ ; Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ ; Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA ; Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Erlangen, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper