Encoding Opus files in Linux with opusenc for your own collection and HTML 5
Introduction Hello everyone! I am finally back to writing a new blog entry, after taking a very long month off. I hope all of my U.S readers had a great Fourth of July and are enjoying the summer. Today, I am going to be discussing and showing you how to encode with the the new IETF working audio codec called "Opus". Briefly, Opus is a combination of Xiph.org "CELT" codec and Skype's "SILK" codec combined into one project. It's a low-latency audio codec that was designed with "scalability" in mind and does things "fundamentally" different, even though it should sound the same if not better in different situations for speech and music. The project was finally completed this past winter and standardized and will be used in the new WebRTC project (for video conferencing), Skype (for video calls), and other companies that wish to use it. Google is NOW (as of July 2013) incorporating it, into the next generation codebase of WebM, wh