CAN/CSA-ISO/IEC 13818-7-02

This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISO/IEC 13818-7:1997 (first edition, 1997-12-01). 1. Scope This part of ISO/IEC 13818 describes the MPEG-2 audio non-backwards compatible standard called MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding, AAC [3], a higher quality multichannel standard than achievable while requiring MPEG-1 backwards compatibility. This MPEG-2 AAC audio standard allows for ITU-R 'indistinguishable' quality according to [4] at data rates of 320 kb/s for five full-bandwidth channel audio signals.