B.2. Definition of Levels for Audio Profiles

The levels for the audio profiles are specified using the complexity units previously defined. A number of zero stages of interleaving for the error-protection (EP) tool indicates that error protection is not used for that particular level.

The notation used to specify the number of audio channels indicates the number of full-bandwidth channels and the number of low-frequency enhancement channels. For example, 5.1 indicates 5 full-bandwidth channels and one low-frequency enhancement channel.

B.2.1. Main Profile

Since the Main profile includes natural and synthetic object types in MPEG-4 Audio Version 1, levels are defined as a combination of the two different types of levels using the two different ...

Get MPEG-4 Book, The now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.