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Re: [codec] WG Review: Internet Wideband Audio Codec (codec)

Koen Vos <koen.vos@skype.net> Fri, 25 December 2009 07:55 UTC

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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:55:30 -0800
From: Koen Vos <koen.vos@skype.net>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [codec] WG Review: Internet Wideband Audio Codec (codec)
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Quoting Phillip Hallam-Baker:
> MP3 and AC3 are the existing industry standards.

These codecs are rarely used for real-time communications, mostly  
because of their high bitrates/poor quality for voice signals.


> So the most we are going to have is a document that
> brings together all the relevant information and allows people to
> quickly come to a degree of confidence that the technology will be
> inencumbered on a certain date.

Any difference with other standards?

koen.

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