Firefox 15 Beta 开始支持 .opus 开放音频格式。实际上这也是为 WebRTC 铺路,因为Mozilla将基于WebRTC标准实现视频聊天功能,主要应用于FirefoxOS,向HTML5再进一步。Opus是一个完全免费的音频格式,这是由 IETF 刚出台的标准,其实就是Skype的 SILK 和XVID 的 CELT 技术的混合体。
Opus的优点:
技术特性:
Bit-rates from 6 kb/s to 510 kb/s
Sampling rates from 8 to 48 kHz
Frame sizes from 2.5 ms to 60 ms
Support for both constant bit-rate (CBR) and variable bit-rate (VBR)
Audio bandwidth from narrowband to full-band
Support for speech and music
Support for mono and stereo
Support for up to 255 channels (multistream frames)
Dynamically adjustable bitrate, audio bandwidth, and frame size
Good loss robustness and packet loss concealment (PLC)
Floating point and fixed-point implementation
该编码的目前实际表现已经引起了热烈的讨论:
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1207785521
http://www.freeswitch.org/node/308
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-codec-opus-00
opusenc工具下载:http://www.opus-codec.org/downloads/
Opus官网:http://www.opus-codec.org/
更详细请看:https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/firefox-beta-15-supports-the-new-opus-audio-format/