A multifaceted sound compression technology is now a standard, smoothing its way to use in technologies such as Web-based voice chats and videoconferencing. Next up: video? Stephen Shankland worked at ...

The developer version of Chrome now relies by default on Opus, a royalty-free audio compression technology designed for voice and music. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Following yesterday’s celebration of Firefox 15 beta, which is said to fix the browser’s long maligned memory leak issues, Mozilla announced that it will support the Opus audio codec going forward, ...

High quality audio links used to come with a high price tag, but Barix’s latest encoder/decoder is changing that. The affordable SIP Opus Codec is engineered to let broadcasters maximize quality for ...

There are probably a billion devices that, right now, run AAC and MP3, as lossy codecs. There have been tens of billions of songs downloaded in those formats. Unless companies that sell music in those ...