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		kiwijamo on Jan 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zoom improvements requested by music schools I'm assuming they use standard codecs like H.264/MPEG-4 and AAC for wide hardware compatibility. Zoom runs on a large variety of platforms including mobile devices. Would be very surprised if it was the likes of Opus etc.

a_e_k on Jan 15, 2021 | [–]

The article mentions Opus:

> “The biggest change,” Anderson said, “was to run the Opus codec at a higher bit rate.”

Wowfunhappy on Jan 15, 2021 | [–]

I don’t think decoding Opus in software would be too hard on performance...

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