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 ...

I recently got an iPhone, transitioning from Android. My experience so far has tempted me to yeet this fucking thing into the sun at a significant portion of C, but that is neither here nor there. The ...

Following yesterday’s celebration of Firefox 15 beta, which is said to fix the browser’s long maligned memory leak issues, Mozilla announced that it will support the Opus audio codec going forward, ...

Wait, where is FLAC? Shouldn't that be somewhere? @moonshark I still use LAME only for the compatibilities sake. Click to expand... FLAC, and other lossless formats, all belong in that same group this ...

A multifaceted sound compression technology is now a standard, smoothing its way to use in technologies such as Web-based voice chats and videoconferencing. Next up: video? Stephen Shankland worked at ...

A company based in Singapore, Radioactive, claims to have the first Opus digital audio algorithm encoder available. Called Xeocoder, it is a streaming codec optimized for work with HTML5 and hence, ...

In the iOS 12.2 beta, Apple has improved the quality of the audio messages sent in the Messages app after switching to a new Opus codec at 24000 Hz, up from the previously used AMR codec at 8000 Hz.

Microsoft is playing nicely with Google. At least, Microsoft is adding support for two Google-supported, open source video codecs: WebM and VP9. Both will be included in an upcoming update for the ...

generation radio software, Myriad 6 Playout, and its native cloud radio platform, Myriad Cloud. Myriad 6 Playout offers the following new features: • Native OPUS audio format support for media content ...