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I just want to mention that getting such good speech quality at 9kbps by using NoLACE is absolutely insane.
by Dwedit 3y ago
I just want to mention that getting such good speech quality at 9kbps by using NoLACE is absolutely insane.
- qingcharles 3y agoI was the lead dev for a major music streaming startup in 1999. I was working from home as they didn't have offices yet. My cable connection got cut and my only remaining Internet was 9600bps through my Nokia 9000 serial port. I had to re-encode the whole music catalog at 8000kbps WMA so I could stream it and continue testing all the production code. The quality left a little to be desired...!
- kristopolous 3y agoI wanted to see what it would sound like in comparison to a really early streaming audio codec, realaudio 1.0 $ ffmpeg -i female_ref.wav - acodec real_144 female_ref.ra And if you can't support that I put it back to wav and posted it: http://9ol.es/female_ref-ra.wav http://9ol.es/female_ref-ra.wav This was seen as "14.4" audio, for 14.4kb/s dialup in the mid-90s. The quality increase over those nearly 30 years for what you can get out of what's actually a fewer number of bytes is really impressive.
- anthk 3y agoI used to listen opus avant agarde music from https://dir.xiph.org https://dir.xiph.org at 16kb/s under a 2G connection and it was usable once mplayer/mpv cached back the stream for nearly a minute.
- recursive 3y agoI don't know any of the details but maybe the CPUs of the time would have struggled to stream the decoding.