Opus Came to Be (opens in new tab)

Everything ever published that touches on developments at Xiph.org turns out to be fascinating and unreasonably informative.

If you have experience in the development or deployment of Vorbis, Ogg, Opus, or AV1, please pile on. There can never be too much public information about the history of these deeply inspirational developments. They represent the pinnacle of human engineering achievement. Every generation that comes after will only benefit from studying them, how they came to be, and the people who made them happen.

"At the time, audio codecs were mostly divided into two categories: there were high-delay, high-fidelity transform codecs (like MP3, AAC, and Vorbis) that were unsuitable for real-time operation, and there were low-delay speech codecs (like AMR, Speex, and G.729) with limited audio quality."

I did not know this about audio codecs, but it makes a lot of sense, and this article is interesting, if not fascinating to anyone who is interested in audio codecs, sound engineering, and/or mathematical transforms...

Opus is great. I wish all contemporary streams shipped with Opus + AV1

This is a very interesting article, thanks for posting it.