The Xiph.Org Foundation just announced their latest improvement to the Opus audio codec with the release of their libopus 1.2 encoder. With this latest improvement, Xiph.Org has managed to make Opus ...

While the talks at the 2011 GStreamer conference mostly focused on the multimedia framework itself—not surprising—there were also some that looked at the wider multimedia ecosystem. One of those was ...

The IETF has standardized the Opus lossy audio codec as RFC 6716. While most audio codecs aim to solve specific problems—relatively high bit-rate music reproduction such as AAC and MP3, low latency ...

Moving studio-grade audio from point to point is much simpler thanks to browser-based programs that use the open source Opus codec. One such modality is ipDTL from the U.K.’s In:Quality, which I’ve ...

Opus backers argue the codec provides better sound quality and spans a much wider range of network conditions and audio needs.http://opus-codec.org/ The Internet ...

Opus, the open standard lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation has recently been updated to version 1.2, a major release that adds lots of quality improvements, several new ...

The developer version of Chrome now relies by default on Opus, a royalty-free audio compression technology designed for voice and music. Chrome 27, making its way through the development pipeline, is ...

Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

Mozilla learned fast from its defeat, when it was force to finally support h.264 for HTML5 video, albeit in a roundabout fashion, and this time around it built a codec itself (mostly) and had it made ...