Re: [rtcweb] Agenda time request for draft-marjou-rtcweb-audio-codecs-for-interop-01

Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com> Wed, 13 March 2013 17:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Agenda time request for draft-marjou-rtcweb-audio-codecs-for-interop-01
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Normally, when implementing VoIP devices, unless they are intended for some
sort of walled garden, you try to support as many codecs as possible. This
increases your chances of interoperability with other devices and your
product adoption. In case of WebRTC, it would be adopted regardless of what
codecs are supported. The number of enabled devices would be so great that
all the legacy networks will have to adapt. This has some negative
implications to the legacy networks as far as quality and costs are
concerned, but these challenges are not insurmountable. So, taking this
into consideration, I want to place the same questions differently:

Do web browser implementers currently plan to support any other codecs
except MTI (G.711 and OPUS)?

Is there anything we are going to say here regarding legacy interop that
would make browser manufacturers to change their mind? After all, this
represents additional cost to them with no direct benefit for the use cases
which are most important to them (browser to browser calls).

For me, the desired outcome would be that browsers, at least for the next
few years, do support a reasonable set of other codecs in addition to MTI,
including G.722, AMR, AMR-WB, and may be Speex, . This would give me an
opportunity to migrate from devices that support legacy codecs to devices
that support Opus. The fact that different browser versions would support
different codec sets (like desktop browsers not supporting AMR) is not a
big issue, at least for me, since we always have G.711 or transcoding to
fall back to. The same goes for browsers fazing some of the legacy codecs
out in the future. The end result would still be better then 100% G.711 or
transcoding.
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Roman Shpount