[opus] opus repacketizer

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 13:05:49 PST 2014


On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Timothy B. Terriberry
<tterribe at xiph.org> wrote:
> Daniel K wrote:
>> true, then why stop at 120ms and not support longer packets?
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716#section-3.2.5
>
> "...the audio duration contained within a packet MUST NOT exceed 120 ms..."

If you're wondering why the limit exists, there are a number of
reasons... e.g.  the overhead is already negligible by 120ms and the
larger the amount of audio in a packet the more memory a
straight-forward normally layered implementation may need to have to
deal with it.


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