Re: [dispatch] [AVT] Proposal to form Internet Wideband Audio Codec WG

Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu> Tue, 02 June 2009 18:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dispatch] [AVT] Proposal to form Internet Wideband Audio Codec WG
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On Jun 2, 2009, at 1:31 PM, stephen botzko wrote:

> >>> - the quality of the codec may not be competitive
>
> I think its very important that the codec quality be competitive.   
> People expect excellence from IETF standards  Standardizing non- 
> competitive codecs because they are cheap does not seem to be a good  
> choce.

This is an engineering trade-off. Ogg Vorbis is probably not the  
"best" codec out there, but fills a need.