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Re: [rtcweb] Some thoughts on optional audio codecs

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Tue, 16 July 2013 20:07 UTC

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On 7/16/13 09:35, Enrico Marocco wrote:
> On 7/15/13 5:15 PM, Bo Burman wrote:
>> In that draft, I would prefer something more in line with:
>>
>> "If other suitable audio codecs are available to the browser to use,
>> it is recommended that they are also included in the offer in order
>> to maximize the possibility to establish the session without the need
>> for audio transcoding".
> Yes, in fact this is happening already:
> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/01/firefox-development-highlights-h-264-mp3-support-on-windows-scoped-stylesheets-more/
>

You have misread that article. What that article says is that Mozilla is 
adding select platform-supplied codecs to Firefox for non-WebRTC uses.

Our implementation of audio codecs for WebRTC continues to support PCMU, 
PCMA, Opus, and nothing else; our implementation use VP8 exclusively for 
video.

/a

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