TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. has developed a single-chip MPEG-2 MP@ML codec based on its configurable Media Embedded Processor (MeP) architecture, which the company presented in detail at the IEEE Custom ...

Audio codecs are one of the fundamental building blocks of modern media systems. The first and still most prominent MPEG audio codec is mp3, which first appeared on the market in 1998. Since then, ...

Few audio standards have had the impact of MP3. But there’s more to audio codecs than just MP3. 3GPP audio standard format families, AAC and AMR, are the commercial powerhouses that are early in their ...

MPEG-2 Part 7 is an emerging audio compression container and codec, using the AAC extension (or M4A for iTunes, a popular audio program that uses AAC audio coding).