[Blink] New Blink Qt release 0.4.0 for Windows

[Mediacast Guy]

I'll confess that I'm not a codec expert but I'm referring to bitrate. A sample
rate of 48kHz is more than adequate, but a low bitrate makes a high sample rate
meaningless. CDs have a sample rate of 44.1 kHz with a bit dept of 16 bits and a
bitrate of 1.35Mbit/sec. Most video streams have a sample rate of 48 kHz.

In MP3 (compressed audio) parlance, you can compress from 8 kb/sec to 320 kb/sec
bitrate while the sampling rate can be from 8 kHz to 48 kHz. Obviously, 128K
bitrate MP3 audio sampled at 48 kHz sounds much better than 32K bitrate MP3
audio sampled at 48 kHz. The ultra-wideband audio deteriorates from low bitrate,
not low sample rate.

I have done testing with the Opus codec at 48 kHz sampling rate with another SIP
client, and the audio does not compare favorably with Skype's SILK Version 3
codec. TeamSpeak is close with its server that doesn't cap bitrate, but it's
still not as good as Skype.

MCG

On 6/28/2013 8:07 AM, Adrian Georgescu wrote:
> Do you mean sampling rate?
>
> Adrian
>
> On Jun 28, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Mediacast Guy <mediacastguy at gmail.com
> <mailto:mediacastguy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Awesome. Hopefully you will include Opus without including a bandwidth limit.
>> Let the limit be the codec's limit.
>>
>> MCG
>>
>> On 6/27/2013 2:30 AM, Adrian Georgescu wrote:
>>> Not in this release but should be in the next one.
>>>
>>> Adrian
>>>  
>>> On Jun 27, 2013, at 12:03 AM, Mediacast Guy wrote:
>>>
>>>> No new codecs, like Opus?
>>>>
>>>> MCG
>>>>
>>>> On 6/26/2013 12:12 PM, Adrian Georgescu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     Version 0.4.0
>>>>>
>>>>> June 26th, 2013
>>>>>
>>>>>   * Added support for multiple URIs per contact
>>>>>   * Added support for Bonjour presence
>>>>>   * Added minimize to system tray
>>>>>   * Added text eliding using fading colors for labels with long texts
>>>>>   * Adjusted selected group background colors for better visibility
>>>>>   * Save and restore main window geometry across restarts
>>>>>   * Move contact when its name changes to keep contacts sorted
>>>>>   * Updated test contact icon files
>>>>>   * Strip URI domain in history if URI looks like a phone number
>>>>>   * Fixed creating offset-naive datetime for epoch
>>>>>   * Fixed processing when initial winfo document is not full
>>>>>   * Fixed publishing internal presence states
>>>>>   * Fixed losing presence state when contact is modified
>>>>>
>>>>> Auto-upgrade will fetch this new version automatically, if disabled go to:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://icanblink.com/download.phtml
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Adrian
>>>>>
>>>>>
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