[NUT-devel] [nut]: r604 - docs/nutissues.txt

[Måns Rullgård]

Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:24:34PM +0100, Alban Bedel wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:41:51 -0500
>> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
>> 
>> > I don't think anyone really cares that much about efficiency when
>> > storing shit codecs in NUT. Obviously any good codec will use large
>> > frame sizes or compression will not be good.
>> 
>> Ever heard of VoIP? In such applications it is essential to have as
>> little latency as possible. Do the maths and you will see that you need
>> a codec frame size between 10 and 30ms to get a decent experience. At
>> 8KHz that's just a couple 100 samples.
>
> At 8khz you might as well send the contents of /dev/urandom instead of
> a signal...

Please stop this nonsense.  Everybody who has ever used a telephone
can certify that 8kHz is perfectly adequate for plain speech.

Perhaps someone could let Rich make a test call on their phone so he
can see for himself.

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Måns Rullgård
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