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

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:35:04PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:32:55PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> Thats one way to safe phone costs ...

With the crap most people talk about on their cellphones, I wonder if
it might convey more useful information too... :) :)

Rich