Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!telesoft!dar From: dar@telesoft.com (David Reisner) Newsgroups: comp.dsp Subject: Re: Reading a CD player's digital output Summary: japanese standard is different Message-ID: <548@telesoft.com> Date: 29 Sep 89 19:40:10 GMT References: <5664@decvax.dec.com> <46208@bbn.COM> Organization: David Reisner, Consulting Lines: 18 In article <46208@bbn.COM>, clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements) writes: > In article <5664@decvax.dec.com> dcj@flume.ZK3.DEC.COM (Dave Jedlinsky OSEM) writes: > > [W]here can I find literature describing the format of > >the digital bitstream from the CD player/PCM recorder? > > AES3-1985 > (ANSI S4.40-1985) > > AES Recommended Practice for Digital Audio Engineering-- > Serial Transmission Format for Linearly Represented > Digital Audio Data It is worth noting that the Japanese standard and the AES standard define the order (meaning) of two of the subcode bits differently. The emphasis bit is not affected. Essentially all systems use the Japanese standard. -David {uunet,ucsd}!telesoft!dar, dar@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu