While the Alliance For Open Media “AOMedia” is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC).
I was tipped off this morning to the formation of the Open Audio Codec (OAC) becoming public this week. The Open Audio Codec is based off the Opus audio codec and intended to be its successor.
This commit this week took to establishing the AOC project and based off the existing Opus codebase. The new README file explains:
“liboac is the reference implementation of the Open Audio Codec (OAC) specification.
OAC intends to be the successor to Opus and liboac is based on libopus. Both are works in progress.
This package implements a shared library for…