Metodos para codificar audio e incluir o audio codificado mencionado em uma corrente de transporte digital, e para decodificar uma corrente de transporte digital incluindo um audio codificado, aparelhos de codificacao, e de decodificacao, sistema de transporte digital, e, meio legivel por computador

摘要

There is provided a method of encoding audio and including said encoded audio into a digital transport stream, comprising receiving at an encoder input a plurality of temporally co-located audio signals, assigning identical time stamps per unit time to all of the plurality of temporally co-located audio signals and incorporating the identically time stamped audio signals into the digital transport stream. There is also provided a method decoding said encoded data, and encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus.