Wideband embedded extension for G.711 pulse code modulation Amendment 5: New Appendix IV extending Annex D superwideband for mid-side stereo Study Group 16
This appendix defines a stereo encoding scheme for ITU-T G.711.1 Annex D (ITU-T G.711.1-SWB) mid-side (MS) stereo. By using MS stereo, very low transcoding/down-mix effort between MS-stereo bitstreams and monaural bitstreams is achieved. To ensure inter-operability, out-of-band signalling should be separately defined to differentiate MS stereo implementations.