This column is devoted to the basics of audio compression, a powerful signal-processing technique that is poorly understood by almost all of us. Once again, I hope you find it useful, or that you can ...

Fundamentals of processing multimedia signals: text, graphics, speech, audio, image, video; standards for multimedia coding, processing and compression. Related products and services will be discussed ...

A further extension of MPEG-2, called the 4:2:2 profile, has been developed to record and transmit studio-quality video. Figure 2. MPEG-2 4:2:0 video data stream architecture. Click here to see an ...

If you've ever visited a professional recording studio, you may have noticed the large amount of outboard equipment that many studios still employ. Nestling alongside a traditional mixing console, ...