[M4IF Technotes] What's low complexity about AAC LC
Panos Kudumakis
pkudumakis crl.co.uk
Fri Nov 9 10:35:07 EST 2001
Prediction for sure impact on quality but talking about MPEG quality is nosense
Thats because MPEG defines the bitstream and how to decode it in order to be
compliant The encoders (which make the difference in the quality) in the
reference software are non-optimised Even the decoders can further optimised at
least in terms of complexity The companies in MPEG contributed to code they do
not give away their competitive advantage that is their optimised codecs and
that open up competition in the market
For more info check out "MPEG-4, why use it ?" publicly available in MPEG site
Panos
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Subject: Re: [M4IF Technotes] What's low complexity about AAC LC
Author: "Ivan Dimkovic" <admin aac-tech.com>
Date: 09/11/01 06:28
Ben,
> Ivan,
>
> Spot on, thanks.
>
> Given that the quality difference is so slight, why prediction anyway?
>
Prediction has some advantages on certain types of signals - Signals that
have strong tonal character are easy to predict, but this is not the case
with many natural signals. However, if the maximum possible quality is
required then the prediction is useful. There are some other problems with
prediction as well, backward adaptive prediction (used in Main profile) has
very long sequences of frames and each frame needs all frames after the last
prediction reset. That could be very tricky in wireless/internet real-time
communication (signal could become distorted if some of the frames with
prediction data is missing), and it also makes seeking very tricky. This is
one reason more not to use prediction for many applications. Portable
devices also use LC profile because their decoding circuits need to be as
cheap as possible.
Regards,
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