Opus 1.1 Released

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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Props to the authors of TFA

[DigitAl56K]

As someone who has previously written outwardly facing articles on complex technology, I have to give props to "Monty" and Jean-Marc Valin for TFA. It takes a lot of skill to communicate good information about some very complex topics in a short amount of space, and they pull it off pretty well. I think it really helps sell the product and keep your enthusiasts more engaged when you can see how much work and thoughtfulness has gone into the guts of it - work that is often unseen, hidden within a dev team, or buried throughout a mailing list somewhere.

Re:Props to the authors of TFA

[Trepidity]

Yeah, Monty's writing on these topics is exceptionally clear. His series on the Daala video codec introduces modern video encoding in a way that's amazingly accessible. Maybe he should write a textbook.