Chapter 14: MPEG Audio Compression

The MPEG Home Page

This used to be the home page of MPEG, the group who developed the standards for coded representation of digital audio, video, 3D Graphics and genomic data. Since its establishment in 1988, the group had produced standards that help industry offer end users an ever more enjoyable digital media experience.

MPEG FAQ

A web page that contains good FAQs for MPEG.

Book: Acoustic Communication

Prof. Barry Truax is an expert on electronic music. His acoustics handbook Acoustic Communication can be found here.

MPEG-1 Audio Standard

This paper is designed to help the reader to unravel the ISO MPEG-1 standard for compressing digital audio data.

MPEG-4 Natural Audio Coding

MPEG-4 audio represents a new kind of audio coding standard. Unlike its predecessors, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 high-quality audio coding ...

Structured Audio and Effects Processing in the MPEG-4 Multimedia Standard

While previous generations of the MPEG multimedia standard have focused primarily on coding and transmission of content digitally sampled from the real world, MPEG-4 contains extensive support for structured ...

Review of MPEG-4 General Audio Coding

Part of the The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science book series (SECS, volume 721).

Synthetic and SNHC audio in MPEG-4

In addition to its sophisticated audio-compression capabilities, MPEG-4 contains extensive functions supporting synthetic sound and the synthetic/natural hybrid coding of sound.

MPEG-4 SLS: MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless

MPEG-4 SLS, or MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless is an extension to the MPEG-4 Part 3 (MPEG-4 Audio) standard to allow lossless audio compression scalable to lossy MPEG-4 General Audio coding methods (e.g., variations of AAC).

MPEG-4 Scalable to Lossless Audio Coding

As the latest extension of MPEG-4 Audio coding, MPEG-4 Lossless Audio Coding includes a scalable audio coding solution (SLS) that integrates the functionalities of lossless audio coding, perceptual audio coding, and fine granular scalable audio coding into a ...

A List of Ratings for Audio Codecs

An interesting list rating the quality value of many commercial audio codecs.

A Tutorial on MPEG/Audio Compression

This tutorial covers the theory behind MPEG/audio compression.