Audio Encodings

Audio Encodings

Properties of Audio Encodings (adapted from Table 1 of RFC 1990 and updated by RFC 3551)

encoding

encoding

sample/frame

bits/sample

ms/frame

DVI4

Interactive Multimedia Assoc.’s DVI ADPCM Wave Type

sample

4

G722

ITU’s G.722: 7 kHz audio-coding within 64 kbit/s

sample

8

G723

ITU’s G.723: Dual-rate speech coder for multimedia communications transmitting at 5.3 and 6.3 kbit/s

frame

N/A

30.0

G726

ITU’s G.726

frame

N/A

G728

ITU’s G.728: 16 kbit/s using low-delay CELP

frame

N/A

2.5

G729

ITU’s G.729: 8 kbit/s using conjugate structure-algebraic code excited linear prediction (CS-ACELP)

frame

N/A

10.0

GSM

GSM 06.10: RPE/LTP (residual pulse excitation/long term prediction) coding at a rate of 13 kb/s

frame

N/A

20.0

L8

8 bit linear

sample

8

L16

16 bit linear

sample

16

LPC

Linear Predictive Coding

frame

N/A

20.0

MPA

MPEG-I or MPEG-II audio encapsulated as elementary streams, from ISO standards ISO/IEC 11172-3 & 13818-3

frame

N/A

PCMA

G.711 A-law

sample

8

PCMU

G.711 mu-law

sample

8

QCELP

frame

variable

20.0

VDVI

variable-rate version of DVI4

sample

variable

 

See also internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC) http://www.ilbcfreeware.org/ Links to an external site. [RFC 3952] (now WebRTC project (webrtc.org). See also wideband CODECs, such as Extended Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB+) Audio Codec [RFC 4352, RFC 4348, RFC 4424]


Slide Notes

[RFC 3551] H. Schulzrinne and S. Casner, ‘RTP Profile for Audio and Video Conferences with Minimal Control’, Internet Request for Comments, vol. RFC 3551 (INTERNET STANDARD), Jul. 2003 [Online]. Available: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3551.txt Links to an external site.

[RFC 3952] A. Duric and S. Andersen, ‘Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format for internet Low Bit Rate Codec (iLBC) Speech’, Internet Request for Comments, vol. RFC 3952 (Experimental), Dec. 2004 [Online]. Available: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3952.txt Links to an external site.

[RFC 4424] S. Ahmadi, ‘Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format for the Variable-Rate Multimode Wideband (VMR-WB) Extension Audio Codec’, Internet Request for Comments, vol. RFC 4424 (Proposed Standard), Feb. 2006 [Online]. Available: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4424.txt Links to an external site.

[RFC 4348] S. Ahmadi, ‘Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) Payload Format for the Variable-Rate Multimode Wideband (VMR-WB) Audio Codec’, Internet Request for Comments, vol. RFC 4348 (Proposed Standard), Jan. 2006 [Online]. Available: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4348.txt Links to an external site.

[RFC 4352] J. Sjoberg, M. Westerlund, A. Lakaniemi, and S. Wenger, ‘RTP Payload Format for the Extended Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB+) Audio Codec’, Internet Request for Comments, vol. RFC 4352 (Proposed Standard), Jan. 2006 [Online]. Available: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4352.txt Links to an external site.


Transcript

[slide93] So I had all these different audio codings with different numbers of bits per sample, different frame lengths, etc. So this thing that I mentioned earlier, the low bitrate CODEC, was done by Professor Kleijn. It's used in the WebRTC product, but today one of the hot things is wideband CODECs. Really high-quality audio. That's right, so I'm getting audio, 16-bit sample, better than CD quality audio. Right?