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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Why not playOpus? (Ivan Privaci)
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:47:06 -0500
From: Ivan Privaci <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [playogg-discuss] Why not playOpus?
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On Saturday, January 24, 2015 07:49:09 PM CodeHero wrote:
I just saw the playOgg campaign and it looks like a nice idea. However
I've been wondering why you did not advertise opus instead as even
xiph.org says that opus makes other lossy codecs like Vorbis and Speex
obsolete
https://wiki.xiph.org/OpusFAQ#Does_Opus_make_all_those_other_lossy_codecs_ob
solete.3F
[...]
I completely agree, personally, though the FSF has unceremoniously
abandoned
this campaign (for the last half-decade!), and have never shown any
interest
in the replacement campaign ("playfreedom"[1]) that they were
collecting email
addresses for 4 years ago. Quite aggravating, as this is one of the
few
campaigns going that could be focussed entirely on encouraging users to
take
advantage of being able to do something, rather than telling them to
give up
something. (Opus so far seems to be genuinely better than any other
audio
codec out there for ANY application other than lossless archiving and
EXTREMELY low bitrate [<8-10kbps] voice-over-IP, and it's already
surprisingly
widely supported, if not well-advertised).
I have SOME hope that the FSF might start considering this to be an
important
and potentially-effective topic to address again someday, since they
have at
least some involvement with MediaGoblin[2] [unfortunately I don't think
they
directly sponsor its developement, but they did allow the project to
use the
FSF's infrastructure to run a donation drive, which let them hire at
least one
full-time developer for the year], which could someday be an ideal
platform
from which to promote "playing freedom", once support for
other-than-WEBMv1
audio is implemented (I'd LOVE to see .opus become the "default" output
format
for this, given opus' insanely great versatility and sound-quality, not
to
mention [in my opinion] the superiority of vorbiscomment metadata to
the
obscene collection of mostly-video-centric pigeonholes that is WebM's
metadata
tag format[3].)
This is one campaign that I could really get into, if the FSF ever
decides
it's a worthwhile topic again. Is anyone from the FSF still reading
this
mailing list? What would it take to actually get "playfreedom" kicked
off for
real?