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@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...
PS: I don't dispute the fact that putting such codec in nut doesn't make much sense, just that these codec are not useless shit as you seems to imply.
=P Rich