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Audio for Video: A Complete Guide to Sound in Video Products: From Jitter Buffers and Lip Sync to Atmos, Quality Metrics, and Neural Codecs
This field guide compares P2P, MCU and SFU audio architecture, explains the RFC 6464 selection trick and ends with a decision tree. Volume 5 covers what happens to audio in the network in depth: jitter buffers and NetEq, loss concealment, FEC and RED, and bitrate and topology decisions. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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