- Dragosani ( @Dragosani@feddit.de ) 8•1 year ago
why always compare to MP3, a 30+ years old format? There a plenty alternatives and most communication platforms from zoom, jitsi, discord, … are not using MP3. Even podcast are moving away from it.
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
It’s a good baseline, since it’s well known. I agree that a more illustrative test would be a comparison with modern codecs.
- jorgesumle ( @jorgesumle@lemmy.pt ) 2•1 year ago
They are just making propaganda to try to convince people to invest in their terrible company.
- poVoq ( @poVoq@slrpnk.net ) 6•1 year ago
So something similar to Google’s Lyra codec? Main difference seems to be that it works well with music and is not optimized for speech only. Is it open-source like Lyra?
Edit: https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec but not an open-source license.
- pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
I wonder if this will especially benefit poor and rural areas, especially in the Global South, that may not have great coverage.
- poVoq ( @poVoq@slrpnk.net ) 6•1 year ago
You need more compute power at the client then, which means cheap devices will not be able to do it for a while at least. It’s neat tech for sure, but for now it mainly benefits bandwidth heavy centralized services that can save costs that way.