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Re: [rtcweb] Query Regarding Mandatory audio codecs draft

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Mon, 28 April 2014 12:14 UTC

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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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