MPEG surround - The ISO/MPEG standard for efficient and compatible multichannel audio coding

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 932-955

  Herre, Jürgen ^a   Kjörling, Kristofer ^b,c   Breebaart, Jeroen ^d   Faller, Christof ^e   Disch, Sascha ^a,f   Purnhagen, Heiko ^b,c   Koppens, Jeroen ^d   Hilpert, Johannes ^a   Rödén, Jonas ^b,c   Oomen, Werner ^d   Linzmeier, Karsten ^a,c   Chong, Kok Seng ^g  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

^b Coding Technologies ^*  (Sweden)

^c DOLBY LABORATORIES   (United States)

^d PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^e AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^f Laboratorium für Informationstechnologie   (Germany)

^g Panasonic Singapore Laboratories   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; STANDARDIZATION;

BIT RATES; CODING TECHNIQUES; MPEG SURROUNDS; MULTICHANNEL AUDIO; MULTICHANNEL AUDIO CODING; MULTICHANNEL SOUNDS; OPERATION MODES; STANDARDIZATION PROCESSES; STEREO SOUNDS; SURROUND SOUNDS; TYPICAL APPLICATIONS; VERIFICATION TESTS; WORK ITEMS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 57349136652     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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