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Opus Audio Codec – FAQ

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Re: Opus Audio Codec – FAQ

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Post by TylerE »

xellisx wrote: post #3

Site has been hugged. On another point, is Opus a popular format, given that alot of people now stream stuff mostly? IIRC, some of the Quake engines support it.

I have never seen an Opus file in the wild.

MP3 and FLAC are by far still dominant. Ogg is still popular I. It’s niche (eg game sounds, and I think Spotify uses it too)

Re: Opus Audio Codec – FAQ

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Post by prvc »

TylerE wrote: post #4
xellisx wrote: post #3

Site has been hugged. On another point, is Opus a popular format, given that alot of people now stream stuff mostly? IIRC, some of the Quake engines support it.

I have never seen an Opus file in the wild. MP3 and FLAC are by far still dominant. Ogg is still popular I. It’s niche (eg game sounds, and I think Spotify uses it too)

>I have never seen an Opus file in the wild.

You have likely heard one. For instance, if you are a Youtube user.

Re: Opus Audio Codec – FAQ

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Post by throwaway189262 »

xellisx wrote: post #3

Site has been hugged. On another point, is Opus a popular format, given that alot of people now stream stuff mostly? IIRC, some of the Quake engines support it.

It's supported by video container formats and widely used. You've probably heard a ton of it watching videos online.

Virtually every video chat system uses it. Hangouts, Zoom, WhatsApp, etc

Re: Opus Audio Codec – FAQ

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Post by lozf »

The only point in lossy encoding is to save space / bandwidth. Opus excels at getting good sound quality at lower bitrates.

If there's a talk or lecture on Youtube that you're about to grab, try the 50kbps Opus version and save your limited space for more important things, but you might need to remux from webm to an ogg container for compatibility.

    e.g. youtube-dl -f249 $URL  --exec 'ffmpeg -i {} -vn -c:a copy {}.ogg'

Re: Opus Audio Codec – FAQ

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Post by lozf »

duskwuff wrote: post #6
xellisx wrote: post #3

Site has been hugged. On another point, is Opus a popular format, given that alot of people now stream stuff mostly? IIRC, some of the Quake engines support it.

Along with YouTube audio, it's used by Discord for voice chat.

And all WebRTC based messaging: Hangouts, Teams, Signal, WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype, etc.
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