[Xiph-Advocacy] [Xiph-Announce] Opus is now RFC 6716, plus stable releases

[Ian Malone]

On 11 September 2012 20:05, Jean-Marc Valin <jmvalin at jmvalin.ca> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We finally made it! Opus is now standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716). See the announcements at:
> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/09/its-opus-it-rocks-and-now-its-an-audio-codec-standard/
> http://www.xiph.org/press/2012/rfc-6716/
> Feel free to spread those around :-)
>
> We're also releasing both 1.0.0 (same code as the RFC) and 1.0.1, which
> is a minor update on that code (mainly with the build system). As usual,
> you can get those from http://opus-codec.org/
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed by fixing bugs, reporting issues,
> implementing Opus support, testing, advocating, ...
>
> Enjoy!

Congratulations, that's been a very long road and a great outcome.

Brief opinion piece trying to promote it for collaborative music use,
any corrections welcome.
http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/opus-teaching-world-to-sing.html

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imalone
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