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

[gehrehmee.livejournal.com]

A few questions:
1) Does this effectively mean that vorbis and speex are deprecated? Why use them if Opus is better everywhere?
2) Will development of vorbis and speex as seperate products effectively cease?
3) Any signs of adoption of Opus upstream? In particular, is there any reason to expect that Apple and Microsoft will start using them? (I read that Skype will, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything for Microsoft beyond that product)

Has Ghost been shelved due to Opus being good enough?

[(Anonymous)]

Has Ghost been shelved due to Opus being good enough?
(Sorry for crossposting)

[(Anonymous)]

Also, is speex better than opus at very low bitrates (4-10 kbps) ?