The Opus Audio codec is now RFC 6716

[xiphmont]

...oh and we released 1.0 too :-)

Since Jean-Marc went throught the trouble of writing a nice release announcement, I'll quote him here:

Hi everyone,

We finally made it! Opus is now standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716). See the announcements at:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/09/its-opus-it-rocks-and-now-its-an-audio-codec-standard/

http://www.xiph.org/press/2012/rfc-6716/

Feel free to spread those around :-)

We're also releasing both 1.0.0 (same code as the RFC) and 1.0.1, which is a minor update on that code (mainly with the build system). As usual, you can get those from http://opus-codec.org/

Thanks to everyone who contributed by fixing bugs, reporting issues, implementing Opus support, testing, advocating, ...

Enjoy!

  Jean-Marc

Comments

Re: Has Ghost been shelved due to Opus being good enough?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Monty

You say Ghost has moved down the priority list.

Would be curious to know what things are at the top of the priority list for Xiph for the forseeable future.

By the way, congratulations to you and the other devs on Opus official release. I have transcoded my flac collection to opus at default bitrate of 96kbps and am really impressed by the sound quality.

Re: Has Ghost been shelved due to Opus being good enough?

[xiphmont.livejournal.com]

For me:

Video Episode II ("Digital Show & Tell")
transOgg spec and initial implementation
endless paperwork!

Others are still working on Opus (there's much left to do) and Daala, Cristian Adam's begun work on new Windows Media Framework plugins for everything, etc... We've also has some new people start hanging out on IRC and working on related projects, like oneman's KRAD Radio.

We're pretty much doing things like we always have. We pull in the same general direction mostly out of pure coincidence and self-selection.