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MPEG-1/2 Layer 2 encoding started life as the Digital Audio Broadcast ( DAB) project initiated by the Fraunhofer Society. This project was financed by the European Union as a part of the EUREKA research program where it was commonly known as EU-147.
EU-147 ran from 1987 to 1994. In 1991 there were two proposals available: Musicam (known as Layer II) and ASPEC (Adaptive Spectral Perceptual Entropy Coding) (with similarities to MP3). Musicam was chosen due to its simplicity and error resistance.
A working group around Karlheinz Brandenburg and Jürgen Herre took ideas from Musicam and ASPEC, added some of their own ideas, and created MP3, which was designed to achieve the same quality at 128 kbit/s as MP2 at 192 kbit/s.
Both algorithms were finalized in 1992 as part of MPEG-1, the first phase of work by MPEG, which resulted in the international standard ISO/ International Electrotechnical Commission 11172-3, published in 1993. Further work on MPEG Audio was finalized in 1994 as part of the second phase, MPEG-2, which resulted in the international standard ISO/IEC 13818-3, originally published in 1995.
Compression efficiency of lossy data compression encoders is typically defined by the bitrate, because compression rate depends on bit depth and sampling rate of the input signal. Nevertheless there are often published compression rates which use the CD parameters as references (44.1 kHz, 2x16 bit). Sometimes also the DAT SP parameters are used (48 kHz, 2x16 bit). Compression ratio for this reference is higher, which demonstrates the problem of the term compression ratio for lossy encoders.
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FhG publish on their official webpage the following compression ratios and data rates for MPEG-1 Layer 1, 2 and 3, intended for comparison:
These values are probably overly optimistic (which is likely to be influenced by public relations, that is to say, they want to hype Layer 3) because the quality depends not only on the encoding file format, but also on the quality of the psycho acoustic algorithms used by the encoder. Typical layer 1 encoders use very simple psycho acoustics which result in a higher needed bitrate for transparentIn data compression or psychoacoustics, transparency is the ideal result of lossy data compression. If a lossily compressed result is perceptually indistinguishible from the uncompressed input, then the result can be declared to be transparent. In other w encoding.
That is to say, the assumed bitrates are not equivalent in quality and the qualities are not necessarily optimal (It is generally agreed that 112 to 128 kbit/s Layer 3 is not excellent sound) and therefore the comparison is probably not very reliable as an objective source.
More realistic bitrates are:
Comparing a new file format typically is done by comparing a medium quality encoder of the old format and a highly tuned encoder of the new format.
The MP3 format uses, at its heart, a hybrid transform to transform a time domain signal into a frequency domain signal:
In terms of the MPEG specifications, AAC from MPEG-4 is to be the successor of the MP3 format. In practice, however, due to numerous patenting and licensing issues with various parts of the MPEG specifications, there has been a significant movement to create and popularise audio formats and/or algorithms which lack that significant problem. The most popular of these is probably Ogg Vorbis, which seems positioned to be the mostly likely successor (compared to any other format) to MP3 as the popular format for audio interchange. Nevertheless, any 'succession' is not likely to happen for a significant amount of time. MP3 enjoys very significant and extremely wide popularity and support, not just by end-users and software but by hardware such as DVD players.
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