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ATSC A/52 - Digital Audio Compression (AC-3)
White Papers The goal of the digital compression algorithm is to produce a digital representation of an audio signal which, when decoded and reproduced, sounds the same as the original signal, while using a minimum of digital information (bit-rate) for the...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Packet Loss Resilient, Scalable Audio Compression And Streaming For IP Networks
White Papers Current popular internet audio streaming solutions impose a division between source coding (provided, for example, by MPEG Layer III- MP3) and channel coding, which is accomplished in the server, typically by means of forward error-correction.
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Huelix Audio Recorder
Downloads Supports all major audio compression formats - WMA, MP3, Ogg, and WAV and allows you to fine tune compression to suit your needs. Huelix Audio Recorder turns your PC into an audio recording studio. Record audio from any port of audio hardware with...
[July 4, 2005, 13:34]
Hardware Implementation Of MPEG Audio Real-Time Encoder
White Papers Audio compression is a requirement for efficient transmission and storage of high fidelity digital audio. In this thesis we look at different audio compression standards with regards to both compression rate and sound quality.
[October 6, 2003, 6:43]
WavPack
Downloads WavPack is a completely open audio compression format providing lossless, high-quality lossy, and a unique hybrid compression mode. The compression ratio depends on the source material, but generally is between 30% and 70%.
[May 3, 2007, 0:10]
China Rejects Western Mpeg Format
News China will have its own audio-video compression standard, as part of moves to shift reliance away from Western formats. Mpeg-1 compression used in the video CD (VCD) format common throughout Asia, while Mpeg-2 is used on DVDs.
[August 1, 2003, 10:25]
EdgeSounds RatHole
Downloads It was especially designed for nondestructive compression of any files containing audio data. The compression algorithm compresses audio data, considering the bit depth of the digital data contained in an audio file (8/16/24/32 bit).
[June 8, 2007, 15:16]
Pistonsoft MP3 Audio Recorder Free
Downloads Pistonsoft MP3 Audio Recorder records audio and saves it directly into any format without additional compression or conversion. Record your audio presentation into a high-bitrate format such as MP3 or OGG to preserve audio quality, or use lossless...
[July 8, 2008, 5:31]
RealNetworks Signs 3G Deal
News A new deal will let RealNetworks offer content providers and wireless carriers the ability to use the MPEG-4 compression standard to stream audio and video to next-generation cell phones and other mobile devices.
[November 5, 2002, 7:57]
Windows Media 8 Shrinks The Streams
News Microsoft released Windows Media version 8 Wednesday, a compression technology that lets companies encode high-quality audio and video into smaller packages. This compares with Windows Media 7, which required a compression rate of 750Kbits for near...
[March 29, 2001, 8:47]
O2™ Workstation Digital Media White Paper
White Papers An extremely high-bandwidth memory architecture, dedicated engines for image and video processing, and a suite of digital media tools give the SGI® O2 workstation unrivaled capabilities for digital media creation and manipulation, including video...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Microsoft And Nokia Agree Music DRM Deal
News As a result of the deal, Microsoft is adding support for the Open Mobile Association (OMA)'s digital rights management system, together with the open AAC audio compression format. These will work on Microsoft's Windows Media player, which will also...
[February 14, 2005, 16:55]
Adobe Brings High Definition To Flash Videos
News It will support HE-AAC version 2, a more efficient audio compression standard that is also part of MPEG 4. Silverlight supports Windows Media Audio and Video and another video compression standard based on Windows Media called VC-1.
[August 21, 2007, 8:37]
Rip Vinyl
Downloads Compression is done via Microsoft's Audio Compression Manager and can use any ACM codec that is licensed for encoding. RIP Vinyl is a direct to disk recorder that allows you to record from any audio source on your sound card, and produce WAV or MP3...
[November 1, 2007, 11:46]
DivX Plots Course To Block Pirates
News Video compression provider DivXNetworks has teamed with the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics to develop a system to protect digital video and audio from copyright violations. DivXNetworks created the DivX format, a video-compression...
[April 5, 2002, 10:49]
MP3: You Can't Stop The Music ...
News The dominant compression scheme at the time, JPEG or Joint Photographics Expert Group, was only used for still images, and it couldn't handle the compression of high-quality movies or audio. The same three organisations -- MPEG, ISO, and ITEC...
[April 10, 2000, 8:26]
MPEG-4’s Binary Format For Scene Description
White Papers It provides coding/compression capability for a rich set of functionalities, including the manipulation of audio and video data, as well as the synthesis of audio, two- and three-dimensional graphics, sophisticated scripting, interactivity, face...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Microsoft Eases Digital Media Licensing
News By adding a licence for the audio and video compression software, or codecs, of Windows Media 9, Microsoft is extending the technology beyond its Windows operating system, where the software is available for free.
[January 7, 2003, 8:43]
Real Enables Windows Media On Linux
News RealNetworks is also evaluating adding support for the AAC compression format, an audio compression format used by Apple's iTunes and others, he said, though that would require further licensing actions for the company.
[August 16, 2006, 8:40]
Video Format Turns To Open-source Developers For Aid
News But On2 is facing a powerful challenger in the standards arena: MPEG-4, a next-generation compression format for video and audio and the successor of technologies behind the MP3 audio explosion. Video-compression provider On2 Technologies plans to...
[June 24, 2002, 8:42]
