High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding
| Filename extension |
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|---|---|
| Internet media type | audio/aac, audio/aacp, audio/3gpp, audio/3gpp2, audio/mp4 |
| Developed by | ISO |
| Type of format | Audio compression format |
| Contained by | MPEG-4 Part 14, 3GP and 3G2, ISO base media file format, Audio Data Interchange Format (ADIF), Audio Data Transport Stream (ADTS) |
| Extended from | AAC |
| Standard | ISO/IEC 14496-3 |
MPEG/3GPP container - raw
Apple container - raw
ADTS stream
High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) is an audio coding format for lossy data compression of digital audio defined as an MPEG-4 Audio profile in ISO/IEC 14496-3. It is an extension of Low Complexity AAC (AAC LC) optimized for low-bitrate applications such as streaming audio. HE-AAC version 1 profile (HE-AAC v1) uses spectral band replication (SBR) to enhance the compression efficiency in the frequency domain. HE-AAC version 2 profile (HE-AAC v2) couples SBR with Parametric Stereo (PS) to enhance the compression efficiency of stereo signals. It is a standardized and improved version of the AACplus codec.
HE-AAC is used in digital radio standards like DAB+ and Digital Radio Mondiale.
The progenitor of HE-AAC was developed by Coding Technologies under the trade name CT-aacPlus. CT-aacPlus combined MPEG-2 AAC LC with the Coding Technologies invented spectral band replication (SBR). CT-aacPlus is the codec used by XM Radio for their satellite radio service. Subsequently, Coding Technologies submitted their SBR to MPEG as a basis of HE-AAC.
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