MPEG-4 ALS: An emerging standard for lossless audio coding

Data Compression Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 439-448

  Liebchen, Tilman ^a   Reznik, Yuriy A ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b RealNetworks Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO COMPRESSION; AUDIO SIGNALS; LOSSLESS AUDIO CODING;

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; SIGNAL ENCODING; STANDARDIZATION; STEREOPHONIC RECORDINGS;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 2642587602     PISSN: 10680314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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