OggOpus

Ogg mapping for Opus

The IETF Opus codec is a low-latency audio codec optimized for both voice and general-purpose audio. See [tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-codec-opus the spec] for technical details.

Almost everything about this codec is either fixed or dynamically switchable, so the usual id and setup header parameters in the header packets of an Ogg encapsulation aren't useful. In particular, bitrate, frame size, mono/stereo, and coding modes are all dynamically switchable from packet to packet. A one-byte header on each data packet defines the parameters for that particular packet.

Remaining parameters we need to signal are:

• magic number for stream identification
• comment/metadata tags

Additionally there's been a desire to support some kind of channel bonding for surround, and some kind of option signalling for "Opus Custom", in particular the granulerate.

Draft spec

Ralph's suggestion: Two headers: id, comment

Id header:

- 8 byte magic signature 'Opus\0\0\0\0'
- <custom mode flags>

Comment header:

- follows the vorbis-comment header design used in OggVorbis, OggTheora, and Speex.
- Magic is 'Opus\0\0\001'

Jean-Marc's notes, from IRC:

Header:
  - "OpusHead" (64 bits)
  - Sampling rate (32 bits, max 192)
  - Channel mapping (bool in byte)
  - Channels (8 bits)
  - Pre-gap (16 bits)
Extra:
  - number of streams (8 bits)
  - string of bytes (8 bits)
Comment:
  - "OpusTags"
     - vendor