Re: [codec] RTP Payload Format and File Storage Format for Opus Speech and Audio Codec - draft-spittka-payload-rtp-opus-00

"Timothy B. Terriberry" <tterribe@xiph.org> Tue, 05 July 2011 16:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [codec] RTP Payload Format and File Storage Format for Opus Speech and Audio Codec - draft-spittka-payload-rtp-opus-00
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>> I suggest dropping the file format part— either completely or
>> replacing it with
>> stubs with recommendations/parameters for encapsulating it in other
>> more widely
>> implemented container formats (e.g. MKV, Ogg (RFC3533), RIFF/AVI)

+1

> MKA would be the container to use for this, I'd think, since it's
> audio-only.

There's no reason you couldn't use Opus with video (and indeed, in 
WebRTC this is the expected use-case). But that's another advantage of 
providing a mapping for an established container format: you get muxing 
with video for free.