Abstract
Since the MPEG-1 Layer III encoding technology is nowadays widely used it might be
interesting to gain knowledge of how this powerful compression/decompression scheme
actually functions. How come the MPEG-1 Layer III is capable of reducing the bit rate with a
factor of 12 without almost any audible degradation? Would it be fairly easy to implement
this encoding algorithm? This paper will answer these questions and give further additional
detailed information.
