Updates to the Opus Audio Codec
RFC 8251
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(October 2017; No errata)
Updates RFC 6716
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|---|---|---|---|
| Last updated | 2017-10-20 | ||
| Replaces | draft-valin-codec-opus-update | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
| Document shepherd | Tim Terriberry | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2017-07-21) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 8251 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Ben Campbell | ||
| Send notices to | Tim Terriberry <tterriberry@mozilla.com> | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | No IANA Actions | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) JM. Valin
Request for Comments: 8251 Mozilla Corporation
Updates: 6716 K. Vos
Category: Standards Track vocTone
ISSN: 2070-1721 October 2017
Updates to the Opus Audio Codec
Abstract
This document addresses minor issues that were found in the
specification of the Opus audio codec in RFC 6716. It updates the
normative decoder implementation included in Appendix A of RFC 6716.
The changes fix real and potential security-related issues, as well
as minor quality-related issues.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8251.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Stereo State Reset in SILK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Parsing of the Opus Packet Padding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Resampler Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. Integer Wrap-Around in Inverse Gain Computation . . . . . . . 6
7. Integer Wrap-Around in LSF Decoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. Cap on Band Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9. Hybrid Folding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10. Downmix to Mono . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
11. New Test Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
13. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
14. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1. Introduction
This document addresses minor issues that were discovered in the
reference implementation of the Opus codec. Unlike most IETF
specifications, RFC 6716 [RFC6716] defines Opus in terms of a
normative reference decoder implementation rather than from the
associated text description. Appendix A of that RFC includes the
reference decoder implementation, which is why only issues affecting
the decoder are listed here. An up-to-date implementation of the
Opus encoder can be found at <https://opus-codec.org/>.
Some of the changes in this document update normative behavior in a
way that requires new test vectors. Only the C implementation is
affected, not the English text of the specification. This
specification remains fully compatible with RFC 6716 [RFC6716].
Note: Due to RFC formatting conventions, lines exceeding the column
width in the patch are split using a backslash character. The
backslashes at the end of a line and the white space at the beginning
of the following line are not part of the patch. Referenced line
numbers are approximations. A properly formatted patch including all
changes is available at <https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/98/slides/
materials-98-codec-opus-update-00.patch> and has a SHA-1 hash of
029e3aa88fc342c91e67a21e7bfbc9458661cd5f.
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2. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
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