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 ...

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 ...

And because Opus has the potential to let us communicate with each other across the Internet with a richer and more natural sound. You will be able to hear people or music or presenters with much more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Comparison of Opus 1.0 with other audio formats. Opus has seen substantial further improvements since then. CC-BY opus-codec.org Opus is a royalty free video codec created by the Xiph.Org ...

Skype's got a new audio codec that it thinks you should be pumped about, and it's called "Opus." It's been kicked around at Skype since March 2009, though work didn't begin in earnest until June of ...

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 ...

Skype has a new audio codec in the works. For users of the service, which is pretty formidable already when it comes to video and audio calls over the internet, it has one significant improvement.

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update, due this summer, will expand the range of video and audio codecs that are supported by the Edge browser. Microsoft is adding the VP9 video codec, the Opus audio ...

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 ...