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Re:Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for ev... by cameron_b on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:26AM (#23017905)
The video encoding/decoding could have leveraged hardware accelerated codecs and freed up resources for audio encoding/decoding
Re:Google Meet premium video conferencing is now free for ev... by microcolonel on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @08:12AM (#23018181)
Audio encoding is not of particularly high complexity. Even the highest complexity modes of the best codec right now (Opus) are like 60-100x real time on commodity hardware, and not too far off on phones.