On 09/29/2009 09:05 AM, Jason White wrote:
Brian West<brian@freeswitch.org> wrote:
SILK will NEVER take off if they don't stop jerking developers around. I have a silk binary but its 32bit only... You CAN NOT link a 32bit .a file into a 64bit .so just won't work. And I emailed about this fact and I got brushed off .. it takes only a few seconds to compile a 64bit version yet they seem to not be interested.
The submission to the IETF changes this situation in that, subject to patent issues, someone could write their own implementation.
CELT will win this battle. Its Open it works NOW.
I hope Celt succeeds; I like its audio quality.
Its early days for the IETF work, but its possible SILK and CELT might merge into one codec. The authors are certainly on amicable terms right now. The snag with IETF stuff is it moves like molasses, so its hard to say whether anything will happen on a sane timescale. Steve