None of the audio samples play for me (In neither Chrome nor Edge... Other sites play just fine.) Makes it very hard to evaluate claims of codec quality, which seems like the primary purpose of the blog post. :(
Working on Firefox Android
Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
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#12That is very impressive! I wonder if a WaveNet decoder could be built for phone calls, as those still sound awful. If it's possible to do this only on the decoder side you don't have to wait for your network to start supporting HD voice or VoLTE to get better quality audio!
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#13None of the audio samples play for me (In neither Chrome nor Edge... Other sites play just fine.) Makes it very hard to evaluate claims of codec quality, which seems like the primary purpose of the blog post. :(
Works in Chrome for macOS
Re: Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
#14None of the audio samples play for me (In neither Chrome nor Edge... Other sites play just fine.) Makes it very hard to evaluate claims of codec quality, which seems like the primary purpose of the blog post. :(
I have no problems in Chrome.
Re: Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
#15None of the audio samples play for me (In neither Chrome nor Edge... Other sites play just fine.) Makes it very hard to evaluate claims of codec quality, which seems like the primary purpose of the blog post. :(
Working on Chrome 67 on Win 10.
Re: Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
#16None of the audio samples play for me (In neither Chrome nor Edge... Other sites play just fine.) Makes it very hard to evaluate claims of codec quality, which seems like the primary purpose of the blog post. :(
There is a option to download the audio for offline listening.
Re: Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
#17None of the audio samples play for me (In neither Chrome nor Edge... Other sites play just fine.) Makes it very hard to evaluate claims of codec quality, which seems like the primary purpose of the blog post. :(
Works on iOS 11 for me but I had to press play and then wait a couple of seconds, press pause and then play again and wait another couple of seconds. Try that.
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#18On a related note, I wish more (any!) podcasts were distributed in opus.
As far as I know, enough podcast apps require MP3 (and not even VBR!) that you have to use MP3, and you can't have multiple s, so how would you do this? A separate RSS feed for Opus, linked only on the website and not submitted to aggregators?
> As far as I know, enough podcast apps require MP3 (and not even VBR!) that you have to use MP3…
Nope! Podcast episodes can be encoded using AAC (which is as ubiquitous as MP3) without issue.
That won't realistically possible with Opus until Opus hardware decoding has available in mobile devices for 5-10 years.
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#19"The man behind it, David Rowe, is an electronic engineer currently living in South Australia. He started the project in September 2009, with the main aim of improving low-cost radio communication for people living in remote areas of the world. With this in mind, he set out to develop a codec that would significantly reduce file sizes and the bandwidth required when streaming."
What do you know, it's sort of like Pied Piper without the magical compression or cloud handwaving.
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#20That is very impressive! I wonder if a WaveNet decoder could be built for phone calls, as those still sound awful. If it's possible to do this only on the decoder side you don't have to wait for your network to start supporting HD voice or VoLTE to get better quality audio!
Actually if you're lucky and make a phone call with HDVoice, or whatever they're calling it, the quality is excellent. It makes a huge difference. Unfortunately the place where you really want good quality is call centres - it's often hard to hear people and half of the reason is the shitty POTS quality - and call centres will probably get HDVoice in about 40-50 years. Maybe.
Edit: nm should have read all of your comment before replying!