[opus] opus repacketizer

Basil Mohamed Gohar basilgohar at librevideo.org
Sat Dec 20 08:19:59 PST 2014


These are really good points to mention, because if left alone, it can leave people wondering (like myself), "well...why?".

On 12/19/2014 04:05 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> 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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