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

[Rich Felker]

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...

> 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