MPEG Audio

MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) is a standard methods for compression and transmission of digital video and audio. Detailed FAQs and WWW sites are available for MPEG:

MPEG Pointers and Resources

http://www.mpeg.org/

FAQ by Luigi: http://www.crs4.it/~luigi/MPEG/mpegfaq.html

FAQ by Frank Gadegast

http://www.powerweb.de/mpeg/mpegfaq/

FAQ by by Chad Fogg

http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/mpegfaq/MPEG-2-FAQ.html

How to Install an MPEG Audio Player for your Web Navigator

http://www.mpeg.org/index.html/MPEG-audio-player.html

MPEG Audio Software on the WWW

Audio and Music Applications for Silicon Graphics Systems

Lists 4 MPEG audio players for SGI machines.
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/cook/audio.apps/public.html

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 encoder, decoder and FAQ

From the Fraunhofer Institute
http://www.iis.fhg.de/departs/amm/layer3/index.html

MPEG-2 Audio FAQ from Philips

http://www.keymodules.philips.com/MD/mpeg/faqmpeg2.htm

MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 audio software

Universitaet Hannover
ftp://ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de/pub/MPEG/audio/

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1 &2 encoder - decoder

Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA)
ftp://ftp.iuma.com/audio_utils/converters/source/

Buddy Software Library: MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 encoder and player

http://www.buddy.org/softlib.html

MPEG-1 Audio Layer 1 & 2 decoder and verifier at CCETT

ftp://ftp.ccett.fr/pub/mpeg/audio_new/

MPEG-2 Audio encoder and decoder at CCETT

ftp://ftp.ccett.fr/pub/mpeg/mpeg2/

MPEG Audio - MetaSound

• Platform: MS Windows/3.1 and Windows/95
• Description: MetaSound is a partial MPEG-1 software decoder which is designed to work with hardware video decoders. It can reduce the hardware cost by eliminating the need for a hardware audio decoder. Currently, MetaSound has been successfully incorporated to work with three hardware video decoders. Features
  • Performance: For 486 DX4-100 machines or above, MetaSound can deliver FM quality (22 KHz) sound. For Pentium-90 or above machines, MetaSound requires 40% CPU bandwidth to deliver CD quality (44.1 KHz) sound.
  • Portability: it can take less than one month to port to new hardware video decoders.
  • CD standard supports including Video CD 1.0, Video CD 2.0, and CDI.
  • User interface with full set of functions: volume control, stop, pause, forward, backward, mute, resume, select the previous/next program track (Video CD 2.0), randomly select a program track (Video CD 2.0).
  • Error Recovery: can automatically skip error bitstreams.
• Contact: Meta Media, Inc.
  F8, #10-1, Ho-Ping East Rd. Sec. 1, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
  Ph: 011-886-2-369-3330, Fax: 011-886-2-369-3331
  Email: mmedia@ms4.hinet.net.tw

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