{"id":354,"date":"2012-09-13T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/?p=354"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T21:03:00","slug":"skype-codec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/2012\/354\/skype-codec\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype Changing to new &#8216;Opus&#8217; audio codec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/get-skype-hero.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-361\" title=\"Skype\" src=\"http:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/get-skype-hero-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/get-skype-hero-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/get-skype-hero.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>Anyone that uses an in game voice chat program like Vent, Mumble, Team Speak or even if you are using Skype, you should know by now the codec is everything.\u00c2\u00a0Any spike in latency can be frustrating and annoying and a good audio codec can make a huge difference. Mumble prides itself in a codec\u00c2\u00a0developed\u00c2\u00a0specifically\u00c2\u00a0for speech and promises low bandwidth with high quality!<\/p>\n<p>Skype has been knocking this new Opus codec around since March 2009 intending to create a low bandwidth codec &#8220;designed for the internet.&#8221; This should mean full CD quality audio in full band stereo over Skype, regardless of internet connection. They are also bringing in new technologies to help with packet loss so your friends and family wont sound like some dubstep audio sample. Personally this makes me VERY hopeful to see Skype on the BlackBerry PlayBook.<\/p>\n<p>There is no\u00c2\u00a0specific\u00c2\u00a0ETA but they expect it to become standard across all Skype platforms. Below is a video that likely has way more information than anyone would be interested in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Opus, the Swiss Army Knife of Audio Codecs - Jean-Marc Valin\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iaAD71h9gDU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone that uses an in game voice chat program like Vent, Mumble, Team Speak or even if you are using Skype, you should know by now the codec is everything.\u00c2\u00a0Any spike in latency can be frustrating and annoying and a good audio codec can make a huge difference. Mumble prides itself in a codec\u00c2\u00a0developed\u00c2\u00a0specifically\u00c2\u00a0for speech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/2012\/354\/skype-codec\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Skype Changing to new &#8216;Opus&#8217; audio codec&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[40,27,35],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-networking","tag-software2","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nervesocket.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}