Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Nov 2012 22:12 UTC
"In Windows 8, we reimagined the browser with IE10. We designed and built IE10 to be the best way to experience the Web on Windows. With the IE10 Release Preview for Windows 7 consumers can now enjoy a fast and fluid Web with the updated IE10 engine on their Windows 7 devices. The release preview of IE10 on Windows 7 is available for download today."
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RE[3]: IE10 still disappointing
by lemur2 on Fri 16th Nov 2012 01:27
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"Opus showed to be better than Vorbis, MP3 and AAC in listening tests most of the time.
Then those listeners must have been deaf, because right now, Opus is good for nothing except pure spoken word. Try encoding music with it, then try using AAC or HE-AAC (a decent AAC encoder, not FAAC) to encode the same source material. No matter the bitrate (unless you get it too high to matter) any music or other non-voice audio stream encoded via the free Opus encoder sounds like the audio is being filtered through grains of sand. Opus is a superior bitstream to AAC, but at the moment the encoder has zero psychoacoustical models to best offset the artifacts introduced by compression. Opus, at the moment, is much more of a high quality replacement for Speex than a replacement for MP3 and AAC. "
If this is so then for applications at the high quality end one should probably still choose Vorbis for use over the web. Vorbis is better than mp3 but not quite as good as AAC.
Vorbis is the choice of the Wikimedia Foundation:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
Because it is a well-performed, open, royalty-free codec, Vorbis is the natural choice for web audio. After many years, IE still does not support audio on the web properly.
Edited 2012-11-16 01:35 UTC
RE[4]: IE10 still disappointing
by lucas_maximus on Sun 18th Nov 2012 18:38
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Member since:2009-08-18
Every web browser has missing features from whatever standards are in place.
I could go on about all the irritating things that Chrome and Firefox don't implement properly.
What you fail to understand is that it doesn't matter, Web developers will use a polyfill or similar to provide the audio functionality.
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Then those listeners must have been deaf, because right now, Opus is good for nothing except pure spoken word. Try encoding music with it, then try using AAC or HE-AAC (a decent AAC encoder, not FAAC) to encode the same source material. No matter the bitrate (unless you get it too high to matter) any music or other non-voice audio stream encoded via the free Opus encoder sounds like the audio is being filtered through grains of sand. Opus is a superior bitstream to AAC, but at the moment the encoder has zero psychoacoustical models to best offset the artifacts introduced by compression. Opus, at the moment, is much more of a high quality replacement for Speex than a replacement for MP3 and AAC.