Opus 1.3 Audio Codec Reaches Beta

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Opus 1.3 Audio Codec Reaches Beta

The Opus open-source, royalty-free audio codec designed for interactive speech and music over the Internet is working on its version 1.3 update...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Opus-1.3-Beta

[tildearrow]

Lack of coffee:

improvements to the VAD and speeh/music classification

Thos wishing to learn more

[Michael]

Lack of coffee:

Severe lack of coffee, check back in a few hours to see why

[rubdos]

He Micheal, mind testing compression performance between versions? Or would you think the difference is negligible?

[chuckula]

Severe lack of coffee, check back in a few hours to see why

Thanks for your work Michael! Take some time to enjoy Christmas please!

Incidentally, Youtube is a pretty big user of the opus codecs for the audio streams in many videos.

[Michael]

Thanks for your work Michael! Take some time to enjoy Christmas please!

Incidentally, Youtube is a pretty big user of the opus codecs for the audio streams in many videos.

Christmas for me = running end of year benchmarks while drinking some tasty beer :P

[stqn]

I discovered only recently that Opus has no support for Replaygain and instead has an integrated equivalent system, but incompatible and confusing. I was pretty enthusiastic about Opus before, but I’ll have to keep using Vorbis.

[profoundWHALE]

I've never had good luck with replaygain. I have too much of a variety of music for it to actually behave properly. Without replaygain, music that is too quiet is either mastered that way (classical) or was not ripped properly. With replaygain I have differences as high at -11dB for something that has the proper volume.

[SystemCrasher]

Opus is a really great codec to my taste. It gives amazing sound quality even at modest bitrates like 64kbps.

[rubdos]

I discovered only recently that Opus has no support for Replaygain and instead has an integrated equivalent system, but incompatible and confusing. I was pretty enthusiastic about Opus before, but I’ll have to keep using Vorbis.

That explains why replaygain didn't ever work. Thanks for the mention.