Lenovo (HKSE: 992), a provider of consumer, commercial and enterprise technology, and Via Licensing Corporation (Via), a world-wide intellectual property solutions provider, announced on Tuesday an agreement granting Lenovo a license to past and future use of the patented technology in Via's
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) patent pool.
QuickTime 6.5 offers support for the 3GPP and 3GPP2 wireless standards including
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) and Qualcomm Code Excited Linear Predictive (QCELP) audio codecs, MPEG-4 and H.263 video codecs, 3G Timed Text, native '.3gp' and '.3g2' file formats, and support for Movie Fragments, according to Apple.
Fraunhofer IIS-A has been the main developer of the most
advanced audio coding schemes, like MPEG Layer-3 (mp3) and MPEG-2 AAC (
Advanced Audio Coding).
In addition, Apple has also added support for the
Advanced Audio Coding audio format, support for the CELP speech codec, Flash 5 support, DVD Pro support, an updated user interface and skip protection enhancements.
Advanced Audio Coding, just launched in Japan, promises better sound quality than MP3 and better data compression meaning longer playback times.