KT-Tech Sound Compression - Music at 32 Kbit/s

Robert Buccigrossi writes: "KT-Tech, whose wireless video compression was featured in a previous Slashdot story, has released a demo for real-time sound compression at http://www.kttech.com/. Like their video, the sound compression is symmetric and is suitable for wireless real-time communication in software. It sounds better than Windows Media and MP3 at 32 Kbit/s for music and 4 Kbit/s for voice." According to the site, "licensing KT-Tech's sound codec is easy," but I bet it's not as easy as .ogg.

Comments

Won't beat out .ogg

[Emad el-Haraty]

Sure, it's great to have another alternative to M$ Media format. Especially in the hotly contested arena of streaming multimedia. After all, the open source movement is based on the idea of having a choice in what software you run.

However, why would people really bother with this when they can stream Ogg Vorbis for Free (as in speech)? It's not as if there is anything currently on the market that has better quality than Ogg anyway. So why do people bother developing commercial software in this area?

symmetric?

[furiousgeorge]

Now color me stupid, but why would i care/want symmetric compression?

For the most part, this tech is used for broadcast or playback. In that case, make it non-symmetric and put all the power at the head end.

The only time symmetric makes sense is for interactive applications (video conferencing, telephony) -- and it doesn't sound like the target audience for this.

Re:The Beam in Thy Eyes

[wfrp01]

It's offtopic and petty, IMHO

When you use software, you have to abide by the terms of the license it is released under. Unless you've been living under a rock, you must realize that licensing terms may vary, and that the choices you make about what licenses are and aren't acceptable profoundly affect your rights. Discussing the licensing terms associated with software is always topical.