'Motion Pictures Experts Group Format I (or II), Audio Layer III' is better known as what three-characters?
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II applied to MPEG-2 video or MPEG-2 AAC audio. MPEG-1 Audio Layer II MPEG-1 Audio Layer II or MPEG-2 Audio Layer II (MP2, sometimes incorrectly called Musicam or MUSICAM) is a lossy audio compression format defined by ISO/IEC 11172-3 alongside MPEG-1 Audio Layer I and MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (MP3). While MP3 is much more popular for PC and Internet applications, MP2 remains a dominant standard for audio broadcasting. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2 encoding was derived from the MUSICAM ("Masking pattern adapted Universal Subband Integrated Coding And Multiplexing") audio codec, developed by Centre commun d'études de télévision et télécommunications (CCETT), Philips,
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II data required to represent an audio recording and sound like a decent reproduction of the original uncompressed audio for most listeners. CCETT (France), IRT (Germany) and Philips (The Netherlands) won an Emmy Award in Engineering 2000 for development of a digital audio two-channel compression system known as Musicam or MPEG Audio Layer II. MPEG-1 Audio Layer II is defined in ISO/IEC 11172-3 (MPEG-1 Part 3) An extension has been provided in MPEG-2 Audio Layer II and is defined in ISO/IEC 13818-3 (MPEG-2 Part 3) The format is based on successive digital frames of 1152 sampling intervals with four possible formats: