Skype has a new audio codec in the works. For users of the service, which is pretty formidable already when it comes to video and audio calls over the internet, it has one significant improvement.

Skype's got a new audio codec that it thinks you should be pumped about, and it's called "Opus." It's been kicked around at Skype since March 2009, though work didn't begin in earnest until June of ...

Early this year, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. movie studios chose Dolby Digital Plus as their preferred means to deliver surround sound for their UltraViolet common file format (CFF) downloads.

Now that the patents for the popular MP3 audio codec have expired, it’s unlikely that the format is going anywhere, despite many reports that misinterpreted what the end of the format’s licensing ...

Google today detailed SoundStream, an end-to-end “neural” audio codec that can provide higher-quality audio while encoding different sound types, including clean speech, noisy and reverberant speech, ...

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You might not know it, but when you go out and buy a set of Bluetooth headphones, earbuds, or a Bluetooth speaker, you’re also inadvertently choosing the Bluetooth codec that those devices will use ...

The WM8987 codec with fully differential-capable headphone driver is specifically designed to address Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) applications and equivalent proprietary ...

Wolfson Microelectronics introduced the WM8569 stereo CODEC, targeted for a range of audio applications including sound cards, digital televisions, DVD-RW devices and the rapidly growing portable ...

These well-built headphones sound good, but if your Bluetooth playback device doesn’t support Sony’s LDAC—an excellent but not widely supported codec—you’d be better served by headphones that support ...

I have no idea how he encoded the sound, but I don't have the codec that he used. Is there an easy way to figure this out? Is there a WMP log file somewhere that might tell me what it's trying to ...