[opus] Why silence is encoded with so many bits?

[Emily Bowman]

That would be highly unusual. Can you give us a sample of the output and
the commandline or call to the encoder? My suspicion is that it might be in
CBR mode using padding bits.

-Em

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 11:09 AM Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:

> I am encoding a minute of absolute mono silence (WAV with wave = 0
> values) and the resulting file is quite big, translating to about 52Kbps.
>
> Quite high for a silence only segment.
>
> I wonder why is so innefficient. Anybody knows?
>
> Any workaround?. Would DTX ctl works to create a OPUS file with "opusenc"?
>
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