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Originally Posted by mzso
@benwaggoner
Well, I for one don't care at all about <100kbps crappines whatever the codec may be.
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It has nothing to do with only being good at crap bitrates, and everything to do with having one codec that can go from 8kbps to 500kbps without compromise, the one codec to replace them all. That is the siren call of Opus, and that is the promise of xHE-AAC, although it hasn't exactly been realized yet. IMHO it's still better to have two heavyweights that are better than everything else out there, because it keeps the pressure on to keep improving.
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Originally Posted by IgorC
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xHE-AAC, Opus, HEVC and VP9 were all standarized at the same time.
VP9, HEVC and Opus were adopted in many applications.
xHE-AAC? Name me one functional encoder. 6 years and counting.
No market for its licensing (Opus did it), awfully late and too little.
xHE-AAC is dead.
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Spotify has been using it all year at the 24kbps point, and they're working on moving it up the stack. Android 9 has made it mandatory. (Android 5 made Opus mandatory.)