SOFTWARE: MPEG Audio Layer 3 Shareware Codec and Windows Realtime Player

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MPEG Audio Codec and Windows REALTIME Player from Fraunhofer IIS
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Fraunhofer IIS announces l3enc/l3dec V2.00 and WinPlay3 V1.00.

For high quality audio compression, the shareware l3enc/l3dec V2.00
package is available for Linux, SUN, NeXT and DOS on
<URL:ftp://ftp.fhg.de/pub/layer3>
Versions for SGI and HP will follow soon.

The shareware package for DOS
<URL:ftp://ftp.fhg.de/pub/layer3/l3v200d1.zip>
includes a demo version of WinPlay3, a Windows MPEG Audio Layer 3
realtime-player.

With MPEG Audio Layer 3 you can get a 12:1 compression with a CD like
quality.
Instead of 12 MByte / minute (stereo 44.1 kHz) you only need about
1 Mbyte / minute!

More information can be found on
<URL:ftp://ftp.fhg.de/pub/layer3/MPEG_Audio_L3_FAQ.html>
or contact <URL:mailto:layer3@iis.fhg.de>