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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
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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
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