>So at higher bitrates, the benefit of choosing Opus is that encoders/decoders are royalty-free. Not only is the new AAC Encoder also royalty-free, the AAC-LC

>So at higher bitrates, the benefit of choosing Opus is that encoders/decoders are royalty-free. Not only is the new AAC Encoder also royalty-free, the AAC-LC codec itself has been declared by Redhat as patent free ( all patent expired ).