Re: [rtcweb] RTCWEB needs an Internet Codec

Randall Gellens <randy@qualcomm.com> Fri, 31 August 2012 22:19 UTC

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At 11:12 AM -0400 8/31/12, John Leslie wrote:

>  Our issue here is Mandatory-to-Implement. It is very important to
>  have at least one MTI audio codec. I could live with that being G.711,
>  because I trust the market to _actually_ implement others.

Exactly.  The discussion has been going in my view off-track into 
debates about which codec is best for which environments.  The real 
issue is mandatory versus recommended.

We can pick G.711 as MTI and rely on implementers to support others.

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