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   Simon Repp (freebliss@post.lurk.org)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:08:01 JST Simon Repp

   in reply to

   @benpate I highly recommend Opus these days because it offers the best compression/quality ratio at pretty much all bitrates¹ ², and at the same time it's also supported in almost all browsers.

   Exceptions are: IE (<0.5% market share) with no support at all, and Safari/iOS up to 17.3 (~4.5% market share) only supports opus in a CAF container, hence a fallback is required for these.

   Faircamp currently provides streaming assets as Opus 96 kbit/s [-codec:a libopus -b:a 96k] with MP3 VBR V5 (120-150kbit/s) [-codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 5] as a fallback, respectively as Opus 48kbit/s [-codec:a libopus -b:a 48k] and MP3 VBR V7 (80-120kbit/s) [-codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 7] with the "frugal" option.

   As the market share for iOS17.3 shrinks further I'll see if opus-only (in a WEBM container) is supported everywhere and go that road eventually.

   ¹ "In listening tests around 64 kbit/s, Opus shows superior quality compared to HE-AAC codecs (...) In listening tests around 96 kbit/s, Opus shows slightly superior quality compared to AAC and significantly better quality compared to Vorbis and MP3." – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_(audio_format)#Quality_comparison_and_low-latency_performance

   ² https://opus-codec.org/comparison/ has some studies linked like e.g. https://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm - note that in the meantime opus 1.1 supposedly increased quality even further, this is not yet reflected in these tests.

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   Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Mar-2024 06:30:14 JST Tim Chambers

   @smallpatatas @fancysandwiches

   I have been clear that I treat Threads like I do any other server. If they break my TOS, I report it and I see them unable or unwilling to take action on reported tickets, to which it is doing harm to my server community, I would fediblock them. But fediblocking ANY server is a last resort, a nuclear option.

   As I wrote already here: https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html