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The AC-3 multichannel coder

Davis, 1993

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917881927985284997
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Davis M
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PREPRINTS-AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY

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This paper describes the operation of the AC-3 multichannel adaptive transform coder. Coding a multiplicity of channels as a single entity is more efficient that coding individual channels, permitting a lower net data rate. The major processing blocks of the AC-3 coder …
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