Re: [rtcweb] Video codecs and the staw pol

Bernard Aboba <bernard.aboba@gmail.com> Wed, 29 January 2014 08:17 UTC

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From: Bernard Aboba <bernard.aboba@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 00:17:25 -0800
To: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Video codecs and the staw pol
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In favor of putting it aside - but agree with Peter that the hiatus should be considerably longer. 

> On Jan 28, 2014, at 8:22, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:
> 
> I have concerns that September 2014 is too soon.
> 
> It was relatively easy for the WG to choose two MTI audio codecs because Opus was a clear winner among modern codecs (and because we had an obvious fallback). We have no such codec in the video space. My suggestion is to wait until we have such a codec (and, in parallel within some other WG or initiative, push hard to make that happen), rather than continue the endless and fruitless wrangling over the current options.
> 
> Peter