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MLP - Meridial Lossless Packing - is a [[Lossless]] compression scheme developed by the british pro-audio developer and manufacturer Meridian specially for inclusion in the [[DVD-Audio]] format.
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'''Meridial Lossless Packing''' ('''MLP''') is a [[lossless]] compression scheme developed by the british pro-audio developer and manufacturer Meridian specially for inclusion in the [[DVD-Audio]] format.
  
It's a completely closed format - there is no source code or format documentation available. Also, the encoder is quite expensive (US$ 2500.00 as of October/2005).
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It's a completely closed format - there is no source code or format documentation available. Also, the encoder is quite expensive (US$ 2500 as of October 2005).
  
Compression efficiency is quite bad for CD content (16bit, 44100Hz, stereo), being outperformed by [[Shorten]] and even RAR. It is somewhat better for high resolution content (multichannel, 24bit, 96kHz), but still beaten by, E.G, [[WavPack]] -h in both speed and compression. Compression is very slow.
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Compression efficiency is quite bad for CD content (16 bit, 44100 Hz, stereo), being outperformed by [[Shorten]] and even RAR. It is somewhat better for high resolution content (multichannel, 24 bit, 96 kHz), but still beaten by, e.g., [[WavPack]] -h in both speed and compression. Compression is very slow.
  
 
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== External links ==
==External links==
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* [http://www.meridian-audio.com/p_mlp_in.htm MLP's official site at Meridian]
 
* [http://www.meridian-audio.com/p_mlp_in.htm MLP's official site at Meridian]
* [[Lossless_comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] by Rjamorim
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* [[Lossless comparison|Lossless Codec Comparison]] by Rjamorim
  
 
[[Category:Codecs]]
 
[[Category:Codecs]]
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[[Category:Lossless]]

Revision as of 12:36, 14 June 2007

Meridial Lossless Packing (MLP) is a lossless compression scheme developed by the british pro-audio developer and manufacturer Meridian specially for inclusion in the DVD-Audio format.

It's a completely closed format - there is no source code or format documentation available. Also, the encoder is quite expensive (US$ 2500 as of October 2005).

Compression efficiency is quite bad for CD content (16 bit, 44100 Hz, stereo), being outperformed by Shorten and even RAR. It is somewhat better for high resolution content (multichannel, 24 bit, 96 kHz), but still beaten by, e.g., WavPack -h in both speed and compression. Compression is very slow.

External links