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

Tim Panton <tim@phonefromhere.com> Fri, 18 January 2013 16:43 UTC

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On 18 Jan 2013, at 11:31, Hutton, Andrew wrote:

> On 17 January 2013 18:00 Andrew Allen wrote:
>> 
>> I would propose:	:
>> 
>> "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"
>> 
>> This is enough to make implementers think about the transcoding issue.
>> 
> 
> I think this is a very sensible proposal as we need to say something that indicates that just implementing the mandatory codec's is not the best solution and it seems that mentioning particular codec's is going to be take us down another rat hole.

Just for clarity, lets make that 
"If other suitable audio codecs are available to the browser to use it
is beneficial that they are also included in the offer but at a lower priority than the MTI codecs
in order to maximize the possibility to establish the session without the need for
audio transcoding"

Tim.