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The current state of the art is Opus, but HE-AAC is also superior, and then there’s always the appeal of lossless which is a lot more practical than it once was.
A format which cannot deliver quality is not state of the art. Opus is the Internet Explorer 6 of musical and video formats.
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Your comment gave me perspective on how far down the rabbit hole my media server has taken me, as I was nodding along to everything the parent poster said having encountered similar issues with FFmpeg in the past. Niche knowledge really can creep up on you over the years as you gradually encounter problems and work to solve them a few hours at a time.
While I have not been this deep into the inner workins, I personally have skimmed that rabbit hole when I started a side-project that was essentially grep but for (mainly) MKV files. Idea was that you could "grep" by specific text in the subtitles and automatically create a clip of every occurrence of the text (by looking at the subtitle timing and padding that in both directions). The biggest source of my frustratio…
I did something similar many moons ago to auto create summary videos based on changing sentiment in the subtitles for the BBC. Worked... interestingly.
If you want to nail scene changes, one thing you can do is look for sudden changes to the histogram frame by frame. It'll change pretty smoothly as people move, cameras move etc but there's a discontinuity when there's a cut. One issue though then is that there are a lot of camera cuts! Surprising how many there are that you don't really notice.
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I mean, what I want is for the car to have an audio input that I plug a cable into. There's no reason for the car to be decoding audio at all.
"Now you have two problems." Specifically the steering wheel controls won't work and I'd have to deal with charging the second device.
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On the basis of "can it play in my car", MP3 is the only winner. My car's player has one of those baseline decoding chips that can only do MP3.
Same here. And it doesn't even do that very well. Imagine spending 15k or more on a brand new car in 2021 just to realize that the sound tech is borrowed from a $5 MP3 player from the early 2000s.