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Opus — the Codec To End All Codecs

Posted by Soulskill on from the sounds-like-work dept.

New submitter jmv writes "It's official. The Opus audio codec is now standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state-of-the-art, fully Free and Open audio codec ratified by a major standards organization. Better, Opus covers basically the entire audio-coding application space and manages to be as good or better than existing proprietary codecs over this whole space. Opus is the result of a collaboration between Xiph.Org, Mozilla, Microsoft (yes!), Broadcom, Octasic, and Google. See the Mozilla announcement and the Xiph.Org press release for more details."

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  1. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obligatory.

    1. Re:Obligatory by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's the nice thing about standards. There are so many to choose from!

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      John
    2. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, blind people can't hear very well -- that's why you need to raise your voice when talking to them.

    3. Re:Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      We blinded each subject ourselves. Yes we take pride in our work.

  2. Re:No Loseless support? by Eponymous+Hero · · Score: 3, Funny

    loseless? your fat fingers are consistent at least.

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  3. Opus?!? by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's wrong with Bill the Cat?

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    1. Re:Opus?!? by jfengel · · Score: 5, Funny

      Transmission reliability problems. Even when a packet got lost, it would still ACK.

  4. Re:No Loseless support? by plover · · Score: 5, Funny

    They also left out n-channel support. You get mono or stereo, but that's it. No 7.1 surround encoding. That would have made it the one true codec for everything. That and lossless encoding. The two true codecs for everything.

    Oh, and support in the iPhone. That would have made three true codecs. Among the many true codecs... oh bugger, I'll start again.

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  5. Re:No Loseless support? by Requiem18th · · Score: 5, Funny

    File a DMCA take down notice against your comment.

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  6. Re:No Loseless support? by sconeu · · Score: 4, Funny

    One Codec to rule them all
    Once Codec to find them
    Once Codec to bring them all
    And in the RIAA's darkness bind them

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  7. Re:Oh boy! by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pffft, you say ordinary diamonds. real audiophiles only listen to BLUE diamonds that were polished on the thighs of virgins.

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  8. Re:No Loseless support? by ignavus · · Score: 2, Funny

    One Codec to rule them all
    Once Codec to find them
    Once Codec to bring them all
    And in the RIAA's darkness bind them

    In the land of Hollywood, where the money lies.

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  9. Re:No Loseless support? by Metabolife · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wh_ re-lly n_eds lo_sl_ss en_od-ng? Yo_ ca_'t ev_n no_ic_ t_e mi_s_ng d_tai_s!