Skip to content

Misleading/incorrect statement in Opus codec registration #853

@Vanilagy

Description

@Vanilagy

The Opus codec registration states the following:
image

The conclusion I draw from this is that when description is set, the bitstream is in the 'ogg' format. However, this is not necessarily the case. description may still be provided even if the format is 'opus', and the 'ogg' format may not even be supported even if description is being set.

Here's a repro link: https://jsfiddle.net/7d1fLmbz/4/
I'm on Chrome Version 131.0.6778.86 on Windows 11.

I think what the registration is meaning to say is that each user agent is free to set description if they want, it's just when they set it it needs to be an Identification Header. It's very useful that it does this and I make use of this description field myself. However, the presence of description cannot be used to conclude whether the format is 'opus' or 'ogg'.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions