Copyright 2004 Ken Greenebaum
MPEG
Audio
nMPEG specifies various ‘layers’ of audio
nEach with more refinement/complexity
n(MP3 is MPEG Layer 3 Audio)
nMPEG Audio is a lossy perceptual coder
nSony’s Minidisk player is one of the 1st commercial applications of this
technology
nIt took many years for these algorithms to catch on