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Opus 1.1 Released

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 6, 2013 @05:25AM from the onward-and-upward dept.

New submitter rvalles writes "Xiph.org just released a major update to their Opus audio codec. Opus 1.1 offers major improvements over last year's 1.0.2 release. Opus is a general-purpose, very flexible, open and royalty-free audio codec that offers low-latency and high quality/bitrate, incorporating technology from Skype's SILK codec and Xiph.Org's CELT codec. Its first release beat everything else last year at 64kbit/s in a listening test held at HydrogenAudio."

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Compatibility by Anne_Nonymous · 2013-12-06 05:32 · Score: 5, Funny

So is this backwards compatible with my existing Monster Cables or do I have to buy new ones?
1. Re:Compatibility by jmv · 2013-12-06 05:50 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  So is this backwards compatible with my existing Monster Cables or do I have to buy new ones?
  You will just need to update the firmware on your cables if you want to maintain optimal RDF (reality distortion field).
  
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  Opus: the Swiss army knife of audio codec