Chris Weller grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, playing guitar and tinkering with a lot of antiquated music software to create industrial electronic music. Upon moving to Pittsburgh to get his ...

MPEG-4 audio does not require a single or small set of highly efficient compression schemes but rather a complex toolbox to perform a wide range of operations from low-bit-rate speech coding to ...

In MPEG Layer III coding the compression gain is mainly achieved through the unequal distribution of energy in the different frequency bands, the use of the psychoacoustic model, and Huffman coding.

An Apple patent (number 7895045) for bitrate constrained variable bitrate audio encoding has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office. A hybrid audio encoding technique incorporates both ABR, or ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Last month's article discussed the theory behind high-end audio coding. The second half of this series will define broadcast quality and tandem coding losses, and look at their effect on ...

December 14, 2004 MP3, the world's most popular audio compression format is about to go multi-channel. Scientists and engineers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, who developed ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Today, many broadcasters and cable programmers are under increasing pressure both to prepare and to distribute their content to viewers over more diverse pathways. These next-generation ...