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AES55-2012-r2022: AES standard for digital audio engineering - Carriage of MPEG Surround in an AES3 bitstream
Printing Date:
2017-12-31
Publication History:
Pub: 2007, Addenda 2010-02-19; Revised 2012; Reaffirmed 2017; Reaffirmed 2022
Abstract:
MPEG Surround is an ISO/IEC standard to extend mono or stereo audio towards multiple channels. The mono or stereo audio channels represent a downmix of the original multi-channel audio that is generated by the MPEG Surround encoder. In addition the MPEG Surround encoder generates spatial side information (MPEG Surround data). An MPEG Surround decoder is able to combine this information with the downmix to result in a multichannel audio signal. In this way backward compatibility to mono and stereo systems is achieved.
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