Re: [rtcweb] Query Regarding Mandatory audio codecs draft

The mandatory codec question for audio is long settled, and personally I am
thinking we really don't want to reopen that discussion.

The original poster was wanting to know if G.711 was preferred over OPUS
for narrow band.  The answer given was "no".  Is there really a need to
discuss this more?

Stephen

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jessie Morris <jmorris@getjive.com> wrote:

> The only situation that it would make sense to use G.711 and video is on a
> weak platform that happens to have hardware decoding capabilities for H.264
> or VP8 or whatever the video codec is. I don't think there are a lot of
> these currently, but it is possible.
>
>
> On 2014-04-28, 06:14, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>
>> On 04/28/2014 11:25 AM, Steev James wrote:
>>
>>> Means you say that G.711 uses less bandwidth than Opus at the expense of
>>> complexity.
>>>
>>
>> G.711 gives very low audio quality. The larger complexity of Opus means
>> that it is able to give a much better quality at the same bandwidth.
>>
>> Personal opinion: The only time I'd be wanting to use G.711 if Opus is
>> available is when I'm on a severely underpowered mobile phone. That
>> platform is likely also so weak that I couldn't even imagine using video on
>> it (video is order-of-magnitude more complex to encode/decode than Opus).
>>
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