From mono Sent Thu, Jan 14th 1999, 19:44
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Mark Barton wrote: > > > > > >---Rodney Perkins <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > >> snipped > >> > > > >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 > > 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 . > --- xxxx@xxxxx.xxx The Incredibly New Interactive Pooh.