A hierarchical lossless/lossy coding system for high quality audio up to 192 kHz sampling 24 bit format

Author

Jin, Akio ; Moriya, Takehim ; Ikeda, Kazunaga ; Yang, Dai Tracy

Author_Institution

NTT Cyber Space Labs., NTT Corp., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

17-19 June 2003

Firstpage

258

Lastpage

259

Abstract

We present a flexible audio coding system for use in the unbroken transmission of high-quality (192 kHz sampling rate, 24-bit digitization (max.)) stereo-audio data streams, either live or recorded. The system provides both lossless and variable-level lossy quality; quality is selectable to suit a full range of wide- and narrow-band IP networks. As input signals for transmission at the server PC, less than nine PCM sound files in different formals are simultaneously encodable, and the efficiency of simultaneous compression is very high. The system is realized by software that runs on a typical PC. This makes everyone able to transmit high-quality sound anywhere within the IP networks. An MPEG-4 audio codec (TwinVQ or AAC) provides the core of the lossy-coding module.

Keywords

Internet; audio coding; codecs; pulse code modulation; signal sampling; variable rate codes; vector quantisation; 192 kHz; 24 bit; AAC; MPEG-4 audio codec; PCM sound files; TwinVQ; efficiency; flexible audio coding system; hierarchical coding; high quality audio; lossless coding; narrowband IP networks; sampling rate; simultaneous compression; stereo-audio data streams; unbroken transmission; variable-level lossy quality; wideband IP networks; Audio coding; Codecs; File servers; IP networks; MPEG 4 Standard; Narrowband; Network servers; Phase change materials; Sampling methods; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2003. ICCE. 2003 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7721-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2003.1218912

Filename

1218912