SmartJukebox: An Efficient and High-Quality MPEG-2 AAC Encoder

Accession number;03A0296575
Title;SmartJukebox: An Efficient and High-Quality MPEG-2 AAC Encoder
Author; TAKAMIZAWA Y (Nec Corp.) NOMURA T (Nec Corp.) IKEKAWA M (Nec Corp.)
Journal Title;NEC Res Dev
Journal Code:G0138A
ISSN:0547-051X
VOL.44;NO.2;PAGE.203-208(2003)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.4, TBL.3, REF.11
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;This paper describes high-quality and processor-efficient software implementation of an MPEG-2 AAC LC Profile encoder utilized in "SmartJukebox," music jukebox software. MDCT and quantization processing are accelerated by 21.3% and 19.0%, respectively, through the use of SIMD instructions. In addition, psycho-acoustic analysis in the MDCT domain makes the use of FFTs unnecessary and reduces the computational cost of the analysis by 56.0%. The results of subjective quality tests show that better sound quality is provided by greater efficiency in quantization processing and Huffman coding. All of this results in high-quality and processor-efficient software implementation of an MPEG-2 AAC encoder. Subjective test results show that the sound quality achieved at 96kbps/stereo is equivalent to that of MP3 at 128kbps/stereo. The encoder works 13 times faster than real time for stereo encoding on an 800MHz Pentium III processor. (author abst.)