This Opus 1.2 major release brings many quality improvements, new features, and bug fixes. You can read all the details in this release demo page. Changes since 1.1.x include:
Speech quality improvements especially in the 12-20 kbit/s range
Improved VBR encoding for hybrid mode
More aggressive use of wider speech bandwidth, including fullband speech starting at 14 kbit/s
Music quality improvements in the 32-48 kb/s range
Generic and SSE CELT optimizations
Support for directly encoding packets up to 120 ms
DTX support for CELT mode
SILK CBR improvements
Support for all of the fixes in draft-ietf-codec-opus-update-06 (the mono downmix and the folding fixes need --enable-update-draft)
Many bug fixes, including integer wrap-arounds discovered through fuzzing (no security implications)
There are no known regressions compared to the latest stable release (1.1.5). Please report any problems.
30 April, 2017, 10:00:45 PM by saratoga | Views: 2790 | Comments: 19
After 4 years of development, version 3.14 of the open source digital audio player operating system Rockbox has been released.
Some new things since version 3.13:
Ipod Nano 2G, Sansa Fuze+, Sony NWZ E360/E370/E380, Creative Zen Mozaic, Zen X-Fi, Zen X-Fi 3, Zen X-Fi Style, Samsung YH-820, YH-920 and YH-925 are now stable
Greatly improved USB support on the Ipod Nano 2G, Ipod Classic, Sansa Clip v2, Clip+, Clip Zip, and Fuze v2
Battery life on Sansa Clip v2, Clip+, Clip Zip, and Fuze v2 is approximately doubled
New DSP effects including Haas effect surround sound, perceptual bass enhancement, and fatigue reduction
Configurable master sampling rate and new resampler
Improved Opus and SPC performance and compatibility
Improved file browser and music database performance
