At first broadcast television audio was mono, then in 1984, MTS (Multichannel Television Sound) was approved by the FCC. Stereo audio and SAP (Second Audio Program) became available and were slowly ...

Audio functionality plays a critical role in embedded media processing. While audio takes less processing power in general than video processing, it should be considered equally important. In this ...

I have a friend who has had nothing but nightmares result from his attempts at setting up the fabled low-latency high-performance Linux audio system. In sympathy with his plight I present here a ...

Surround sound home theater systems have become an essential part of the home entertainment experience. Over 16 million homes have installed a theater system in the last few years. All indicators show ...

Fortunately for the audio world, the SD and HD digital video formats contain unused space, called the horizontal and vertical ancillary data space, places between the end and start of active video ...

In the following tutorial, we’re going to explain how to get the best results when encoding audio for low-bandwidths. By low bandwidths, we mean up to 20Kbps audio for mobile phone networks and ...