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Re:Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudi... by autopoiesis on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:51AM (#19826422)
I see you've got Opus on your to-do list. I would really appreciate that! I find Opus (appropriately configured) to be audibly indistinguishable from CD audio, and it would really help with the bandwidth requirements.

I've always been really excited by the possibilities implied by PulseAudio's network capabilities, but disappointed by their latency and bandwidth requirements. Roc + Opus would be amazing.

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Re:Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudi... by zneveu on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:48PM (#19827589)
Check out https://github.com/eugenehp/trx for Opus streaming inspiration, I've played around with their code and found it easy to work with. Opus would be great with ROC because in case of buffer over/under runs the codec provides features to mask dropouts based on previous content. This is critical when using Wi-Fi.
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Re:Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudi... by gavv42 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:15PM (#19827788)
Thanks.

> Opus would be great with ROC because in case of buffer over/under runs the codec provides features to mask dropouts based on previous content. This is critical when using Wi-Fi.

Are you talking about its PLC or FEC? I didn't test it yet and I'm interested if people are using both of them with music.

BTW it would be also interesting to combine our FECFRAME support with Opus.

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Re:Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudi... by gavv42 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:54AM (#19826796)
Good to know. Yes, Opus will be is one of the highest priorities for us after we'll make the very first (0.1) release.
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Re:Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudi... by autopoiesis on Saturday May 04, 2019 @11:02AM (#19826842)
Excellent; a few years ago I even started hacking on my own transport, very roughly as a PA module, but life got in the way and it never got very far. So I'm very pleased to see this great project. Thanks, and good luck!
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