Re: [rtcweb] Confirmation of consensus on audio codecs

Ron <ron@debian.org> Sat, 01 September 2012 03:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Confirmation of consensus on audio codecs
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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:46:21PM +0100, Neil Stratford wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Cullen Jennings (fluffy)
> <fluffy@cisco.com> wrote:
> > At the last meeting we took a hum on selecting Opus and G.711 as the mediatory to implement audio codecs. If there is any new opinions please send them to the list by August 30th, after which the chairs will make a determination of consensus.
> 
> I support both G.711 and Opus as mandatory to implement.
> 
> G.711 alone does not meet the rtcweb goal of producing a viable
> alternative to browser plugins as it will be impossible for an
> application developer to guarantee an acceptable audio quality
> (defined as at least as good as when using plugins) for browser to
> browser calls.

Indeed.  +1 for Opus and G.711 as MTI.

 Ron