Opus is now RFC6716, version 1.0.1 released! Options

[xiphmont]

"Mozilla and the Xiph.Org Foundation are pleased to announce the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has standardized Opus as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state-of-the-art, fully Free and Open audio codec ratified by a major standards organization."

Full announcement at xiph.org/press/2012/rfc-6716

Yay!

This post has been edited by Frank Bicking: Sep 11 2012, 20:46

Reason for edit: Fixed URL.

[benski]

Is storage in the Ogg container format intended to be the go-forward standard for encoding of local files with the Opus codec?

This post has been edited by benski: Sep 12 2012, 00:09

[Dynamic]

Is storage in the Ogg container format intended to be the go-forward standard for encoding of local files with the Opus codec?

From the link through from the Opus homepage to the Ogg-Opus page, it appears so, and it's quite highly developed, including integration with EBU-R128 loudness normalization specified.

Congratulations to all involved including indeed all the corporate interests who have seen fit to ensure it is an open standard to prevent fragmentation and those such as Mozilla who have contributed employees to work on it.

Hopefully the Mandatory status in WebRTC and the IETF standardization and the number of organisations behind Opus will encourage a wide range of others to implement it as a well-backed standard and very much an open door to numerous use-cases, which need implementing only once for them all.

[iwod]

Is storage in the Ogg container format intended to be the go-forward standard for encoding of local files with the Opus codec?

From the link through from the Opus homepage to the Ogg-Opus page, it appears so, and it's quite highly developed, including integration with EBU-R128 loudness normalization specified.

Congratulations to all involved including indeed all the corporate interests who have seen fit to ensure it is an open standard to prevent fragmentation and those such as Mozilla who have contributed employees to work on it.

Hopefully the Mandatory status in WebRTC and the IETF standardization and the number of organisations behind Opus will encourage a wide range of others to implement it as a well-backed standard and very much an open door to numerous use-cases, which need implementing only once for them all.

Ogg and not Matroska ( WebM )?

[Dynamic]

Ogg and not Matroska ( WebM )?

Opus in Matroska is also being worked on within Xiph.org, but isn't ready today, from what I've read. I suspect that .opus files (i.e. opus in ogg container) will be the typical form of file-based Opus audio-only playback, just as .ogg is the typical form of file-based Vorbis audio-only playback.