What is Musicam?
It’s Musicam USA’s own version of MPEG-2 compression. MPEG-2 is a standard defined by committee. However, it’s possible to change the performance of an encoder by changing the parameters it uses is analysing the signal. A signal produced in this way is still decodable by other manufacturers’ codecs. As you’d expect, all manufacturers claim that their encoder works better than anyone else’s. Musicam have gone one stage further by giving their version of MPEG-2 its own name. Philips are one of the biggest companies on the MPEG-2 committee; their own commercial MPEG-2 coding technology is used in ISYS Pro. What about MPEG Layer III This is the newest coding method in the marketplace and is supported by a couple of manufacturers including Musicam USA. It is a far better way of coding the signal.
