This chapter covers the process of assembling the program audio and program related text into a monolithic package to hand off to lower layers of the NRSC-5 protocol. It begins with a discussion of ...

Coding Is Fundamental Component of Digital Production and Broadcast Systems Digital audio codecs are the fundamental enabling technology behind all of today’s emerging sound broadcast and distribution ...

A Codec is a combination of Coder and Decoder, or Compressor and Decompressor, and it is software used to compress or decompress digital media files, such as songs or videos. To play OGG, Vorbis, and ...

The market for audio applications and devices has significantly grown over the last couple of years. Applications such as smart speakers, Bluetooth speakers, smartphones, and voice-controlled ...

It’s simplistic to think of a multimedia codec (coder/decoder) as a simple pairing of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters (ADCs and DACs), often with a few “bells and whistles” placed ...

One of the problems with most technologies is that they are jargon filled, and if you don’t know the secret handshakes, you won’t be welcomed into the club. The field of communications is certainly ...

BANGALORE, India — Ittiam Systems, an Indian startup, has developed standards-based speech and video codecs that run on multiple fixed-point DSPs and target emerging multimedia markets. Ittiam claims ...

This article assumes a basic understanding of video compression algorithms. For an intro to video coders, see How video compression works. This article is an introduction to On2's VP6 codec, one of ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

If you have more than one computer–for instance, a desktop and a laptop–you may have encountered video files that run on one machine but not the other. That’s probably because of a codec conflict.