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by LeoPanthera 1343 days ago
> Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers. Opus is no longer being used.

I wonder why.

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It cannot possibly be for technical reasons.

It's almost certainly something to do with this:

https://www.vectis.com/media/vectis-ip-announces-call-for-pa...

Which is complete bullsh*t.

Looks like Fraunhoffer and Dolby intend to go after any commercial product using Opus, and demand fees. They claim this is only for hardware devices … for now. As to software, they only state they do not intend to go after open source software. But since Virtualbox is also commercial software, Oracle is at risk.

Searching a GitHub mirror reveals https://github.com/mdaniel/virtualbox-org-svn-vbox-trunk/com...

No idea what bugref:10275 is. It's presumably not https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10275