Audio Transcoding Algorithm For Mobile Multimedia Application

In this paper, we propose an audio transcoding algorithm for mobile multimedia applications. The algorithm is to provide high quality transcoded audio stream from a multimedia broadcasting media server system to mobile terminals. As a representative case, audio transcoder between T-DTV and T-DMB service is considered. While the Korean DTV audio standard adopted the Dolby AC-3, the Korean T-DMB service uses the MPEG-4 BSAC. The proposed algorithm reuses the bit allocation information of the AC-3 decoder in the process of BSAC encoding and simplifies the bit-allocation process with two independent loops instead of nested ones. We verified that our architecture could take the place of the nested loop with a significant simplification and no PAM. The proposed audio transcoding algorithm is suitable for the mobile multimedia applications due to its low complexity and minimum frame-by-frame complexity variations