INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR STANDARDISATION ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE NORMALISATION ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO
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1998
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Kaoru Watanabe
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作者:
Kaoru Watanabe
This document presents an overview of the preparations for, and the results of, the subjective listening tests on the MPEG-2 Non-Backwards Compatible (NBC) multichannel audio coding algorithm carried out by the BBC and NHK between 16 September and 11 October 1996. It is derived from the detailed report of the tests [4]. The tests evaluated the following multichannel codecs: MPEG-2 NBC at 256 kbit/s MPEG-2 NBC at 320 kbit/s MPEG-2 NBC low-complexity version at 320 kbit/s 1995 version of MPEG-2 Layer II at 640 kbit/s in a backwards compatible mode. The test procedure and environments complied with ITU-R Recommendation BS-1116. Listener reliability and test procedure checks were included and a detailed statistical analysis of the results was performed. The results showed good performance for all of the codecs. The MPEG-2 NBC codec at 320 kbit/s generally performed better than the other codecs and, although not quite transparent for a few test excerpts under these rigorous conditions, it passed the EBU criterion for “indistinguishable quality”. Overall, the performance of MPEG-2 NBC low complexity version at 320 kbit/s was, by a small margin, not quite as good as that of MPEG-2 NBC at 320 kbit/s. It is worth emphasising that these tests were conducted according to the most rigorous of test methods. Comparisons to other test results using less rigorous methodologies should not be made.