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 ...

Guest post by Eliot Van Buskirk of Evolver.fm. Ogg Vorbis has a super weird name but basically, it’s just like MP3 — except nobody has to pay for it, because it’s open source. Yes, MP3 is proprietary, ...

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 ...

Innovators with Essential Patents Are Invited to Participate in the Upcoming Program London, UK, September 15, 2022: UK-based IP and technology licensing company Vectis IP today announced a call for ...

I'm sure that it is an attempt to slow the adoption of Opus. But I doubt it will work. The Opus license page is pretty clear and I doubt this outfit will have any success in scaring people away. With ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.