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Re: [rtcweb] Call for Consensus Regarding Selecting Recommended Audio Codecs

Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com> Thu, 27 December 2012 12:14 UTC

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On 25 Dec 2012, at 12:29, Eric Burger wrote:

> Adam has got it in one.
> 
> Listen to the arguments: "We want interop with 3G. No, we want interop with SIP/PSTN. No, we want interop with SIP/WB. No, we want interop with NGN. No, we want interop with Skype. No, we want interop with…."
> 
> Each of these networks seem to have their own preferred codec. Most of the arguments on the list are of the form, "I want my favorite codec for my favorite network as a SHOULD or as a RECOMMENDED."

When in fact (based on my experience at protothon and elsewhere) the _huge_ _predominant_ usage will be browser to browser, peer-to-peer.
We need to be _very_ sure that nothing we do here for the sake of legacy interop makes that user-experience worse.

> 
> The major gastrointestinal objection I have here is every week we argue, someone will come up with "we want to interop with Future Tech 1."
> 
> What I would offer as a way forward is to mandate G.711, because we could not agree to mandate opus, and mandate NOTHING ELSE.
> 
I thought the current status was that we had agreed to mandate G.711 and Opus already?


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