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Thanks for the explanation. So it's a different situation from e.g. hardware H264 decoders, where the extra silicon makes a dramatic difference. Then the main

Thanks for the explanation. So it's a different situation from e.g. hardware H264 decoders, where the extra silicon makes a dramatic difference. Then the main concern remains interoperability. I'd still pay a bit more to make sure my friend's random device has a better chance of working at all. Bluetooth is already a tire fire so I wouldn't like to add another layer of interop issues.

nyanpasu64 4y ago
Hardware Opus decoders are completely unnecessary for desktops, and probably so for laptops or even phones I think. It's possible it substantially improves battery life in small-battery headphones and such, or it's physically impossible for headphone Bluetooth chips to support CPU decoding. But I doubt Opus is any harder to implement in hardware (or DSP firmware) than LC3 (which I don't know if it's easy to implement, but I assume they're trying to get hardware to support it).