At its 70th meeting in Palma de Mallorca, Spain last month, the Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) evaluated four competing technologies for the efficient coding of spatial audio. This technology has ...

MPEG-4 is a multimedia toolbox developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) out of the need for a non-proprietary universal open multimedia standard. Its coding algorithms for natural sound ...

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 ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

Comrex, a manufacturer of professional broadcasting equipment, is licensing Fraunhofer IIS implementations of two of the most efficient audio compression technologies standardized in MPEG-4. By ...

New aacPlus DirectShow Plug-in enables Microsoft’s Windows Media users to enjoy CD-quality Radio at a mere 32kbps NAB — Las Vegas — April 24, 2006 — Coding Technologies, the leading provider of audio ...

PARIS — Has MPEG had its day? A Milpitas, Calif. startup will argue in the affirmative Monday (March 25) when it announces an object-based video coding algorithm that it calls a radical departure from ...

All of that squabbling over H.264 may be rendered moot in the near future. The Motion Picture Experts Group (better known as MPEG) has just let us know that it was quietly drafting a new video ...