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- From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler)
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- Subject: Re: Interest in Full Motion video, without
- Date: 13 Dec 1992 07:18:47 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- >> All this talk about video compression. Did anyone stop to think about
- >> what happens to the audio?
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- Of course. MPEG I defines a video stream, an audio stream, and a
- system stream, the latter of which provides the synchronization of
- the video and audio. The audio compression scheme of MPEG I takes
- stereo CD (about 1.4 Mbits/s) and compresses it to 256 Kbits/s,
- about 6:1. The resulting uncompressed audio is almost always
- indistinguishable from the original, and when there is a difference
- to be perceived, it takes training in the artifacts to notice them.
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- I believe that, with a little work, the DSP on the NeXT could
- handle the decompression of the audio on its own.
-
- Mark Adler
- madler@cco.caltech.edu
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