Re: (idm) new public enemy mp3/4s

From mono
Sent Thu, Jan 14th 1999, 19:44

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Mark Barton wrote:

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> >---Rodney Perkins <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
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> >Everybody here should check out the MP4 deal...very interesting.  It's
> >sort of like a self-executing audio file..you don't need a player or
> >anything.  And it sounds really good.  Does anybody have any more info
> >on this format?
> 

just so ya'll know mp4 and mpeg4 are not the same:

http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/17303.html

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> the audio segment of mpeg4 gives you a ' palette ' of compression tools for
> achieving low bite rate audio . i suspect that the flavour of compression
> used here is the ' general audio coding tool ' , which is pretty much based
> on mpeg2 AAC audio coding but souped up a little bit to include a few new
> extra tricks .
> 
> check out the mpeg home page at http://drogo.cselt.stet.it/mpeg/ for the
> whole lowdown . the spec got publically released about 2 / 3 weeks ago .
> 
> hope this is some interest ?
> 
> mark b .
> 

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