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News Release from: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS | Subject: MPEG-4 AAC-LD
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 August 2006
Codec cuts delays at Internet bitrates
Source Elements is licensing the Fraunhofer IIS implementation of the most advanced low delay audio coding standard in MPEG-4 "Low delay advanced audio coding" (MPEG-4 AAC-LD).
Source Elements is licensing the Fraunhofer IIS implementation of the most advanced low delay audio coding standard in MPEG-4 "Low delay advanced audio coding" (MPEG-4 AAC-LD) Integrated into the Source-Connect product line, the codec is vital for establishing high-quality audio connections between Pro Tool systems anywhere in the world
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The high audio quality provided by MPEG-4 AAC-LD is a well known feature of Source-Connect.
This has been pointed out by many famous artists working with this tool.
Gerry Teague, Chief Engineer of De Lane Lea, London's premier film post production house, says: "Source-Connect has the excellent high-fidelity sound our clients demand".
"The audio quality is so crisp and transparent that, for all our clients know there is no compression at all".
Source Elements is a leading provider of software solutions for the Pro Tools environment.
Pro Tools is widely used for music production and digital audio editing in professional sound studios.
MPEG-4 AAC-LD, mainly developed by the audio coding specialists at Fraunhofer IIS, features a low encoding/decoding delay together with low datarates while providing best music and speech quality.
This makes the codec a perfect completion for Source-Connect, which continues to be the Pro Tools connectivity toolset of choice.
Harald Popp, Head of the Multimedia Real-time Systems Department at Fraunhofer IIS, says: "We are happy that our MPEG-4 AAC-LD implementation helps Source Elements to connect the Pro Tools user community".
"This is another proof for the quality of our audio coding algorithms as they meet the high demands of professional audio engineers".
Robert Marshall, cofounder of Source Elements states: "The AAC-LD codec offered the best sound quality we could find at bitrates that would transport easily over the Internet".
"It is the most efficient codec available offering near imperceptible loss even at bitrates less than 100Kbit/s for mono".
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