Re: [rtcweb] On video codec for rtcweb

Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com> Sat, 24 March 2012 09:15 UTC

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From: Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com>
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] On video codec for rtcweb
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On 23 Mar 2012, at 12:34, "Cavigioli, Chris" <chris.cavigioli@intel.com> wrote:

> ITU-T G.711, both u_law (North America) and A_law (Europe) formats, can be supported by everyone with very trivial software burden

I hope that doesn't mean we forget the plan to support Opus. 

We need an adaptive codec with fec in order to get decent audio out of real world networks, like 3G, cafe wifi, vsat etc. 

G711 is ok for perfect networks with legacy interop needs, but pretty much useless anywhere else. 

Tim.