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Re: [rtcweb] Google statement on codecs

Ralph Giles <giles@thaumas.net> Mon, 30 July 2012 03:13 UTC

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On 12-07-29 6:44 PM, Maire Reavy wrote:

> Mandating encumbered codecswould force open-source projects to violate
> the spec (by not implementing a mandatory codec).  For this reason and
> the reasons Justin cites, we believe Opus, G.711 and VP8 are the best
> mandatory-to-implement choices for the spec.

+1

 -r

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