Today, after more than 50 years of life on this planet (many of which were spent listening to music), I discover that the legendary 80s song by Opus is called "Live is Life" and not "Life is Life". I'm Astonished 
Ok, now you will all say "We all knew that!" ... Well, I don't 
Doing some test broadcasts with an external stereo microphone hooked into an iRig > iPhone XR.
We proudly use the high quality, open source Ogg/Opus to broadcast live on the Subjam platform
@atmuntenas El "problema" de #AV1 es que los dispositivos capaces de codificar y decodificar por hardware aún son limitados, así que aún le quedan algunos pocos años más hasta que se extienda (aunque la decodificación por CPU no consume tantos recursos). No obstante, muchos servicios ya priorizan AV1 si detectan que el hardware es compatible, como Netflix.
#Opus sí que está más extendido. Es el códec que usa Spotify, por ejemplo, y más servicios lo usan también porque casi todos los dispositivos actuales traen los códecs necesarios para ello de fábrica.
Estoy de acuerdo en que los formatos propietarios son cosa del pasado. Como mínimo, que sean la excepción y no la norma.
I love that there's a database of Irish history/culture texts called “CELT” (“Corpus of Electronic Texts”)
I came across this because in the Opus codec, one of the layers is an algorithm with the same acronym (for “Constrained Energy Lapped Transform”)
![Wikipedia article for "Corpus of Electronic Texts":
"The Corpus of Electronic Texts, or CELT, is an online database of contemporary and historical documents relating to Irish history and culture.[1] As of 8 December 2016, CELT contained 1,601 documents, with a total of over 18 million words.[2] In 1992, CELT originated from the ashes of an unsuccessful partnership between University College Cork (UCC/NUI) and the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) through a project named CURIA.[3] According to CELT, the database 'caters for academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public, all over the world'.[4]"](https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/225/240/749/968/476/original/baa1039d4281e6ce.png "Wikipedia article for \"Corpus of Electronic Texts\":
\"The Corpus of Electronic Texts, or CELT, is an online database of contemporary and historical documents relating to Irish history and culture.[1] As of 8 December 2016, CELT contained 1,601 documents, with a total of over 18 million words.[2] In 1992, CELT originated from the ashes of an unsuccessful partnership between University College Cork (UCC/NUI) and the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) through a project named CURIA.[3] According to CELT, the database 'caters for academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public, all over the world'.[4]\"")
This movie had a shocking lack of large-nosed cartoon penguins.
https://www.ga2so.com/blog/2025/03/21/movie-pass-adventures-opus/
Gracias a un compañero de clase, he descubierto #AV1 + #opus. Y oye, que maravilla de códecs.
Lo primero, la recodificación de los medios, si bien implica una mínima pérdida de calidad visual, ofrece un resultado bastante alucinante. Medios gigantes comprimidos en apenas unos MBs.
Recodificando un episodio de cuéntame en H264 AAC a AV1 OPUS, el archivo ha pasado de pesar 2,5GBs, a unos 500MBs.
Bendita sea la tecnología. H264 y H265 mueren para mí, es hora de adoptar nuevos códecs.
The Opulent Clothing of ‘Opus’: Costume Designer Shirley Kurata on Ayo Edebiri’s ‘Black Ivy’ Style, Studying Cults and the Pop Stars on Her Moretti Mood Board
#Variety #News #A24 #AyoEdebirir #Opus
Amber Midthunder Talks That ‘Novocaine’ Twist and Her ‘Predator’ Franchise Future
#MovieFeatures #Movies #AmberMidthunder #DanTrachtenberg #JackQuaid #Novocaine #Opus #Prey
and the above should've been on the #taggart thread instead of here, but we've already established that i suck at keeping all my updates to a single thread...
anyway, first issue closed! #lofty worked great, giving me uniform support for *takes a deep breath* #Aac #Aiff #Ape #Flac #Mpeg #Mp4 #Mpc #Opus #Vorbis #Speex #Wav #WavPack 
up next: using https://docs.rs/unicode-width/latest/unicode_width/ to get me some tidy columns - length of some release titles is just delightfully absurd!
Box Office: ‘Novocaine’ Leading ‘Black Bag’ and ‘Mickey 17’ in Close Race for First as Theaters Potentially Face the Slowest Weekend of 2025
#Variety #BoxOffice #News #BlackBag #Mickey17 #Novocaine #Opus
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/box-office-novocaine-opening-day-mickey-17-1236338166/
Why ‘Opus’ Director Mark Anthony Green Swept His Own Movie Set
#MovieFeatures #Movies #MarkAnthonyGreen #Opus
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/opus-director-mark-anthony-green-1236161608/
OPUS - "Live Is Life" live at the Opera 12/2021....feat. Günter Timischl
Montréal’s ARTM has launched the project for dematerializing the OPUS card.
// Press release in French //
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L’agence régionale des transports métropolitains (ARTM) de Montréal a lancé le projet de dématérialisation de la carte OPUS.
https://www.artm.quebec/lartm-lance-le-developpement-de-la-carte-opus-virtuelle/
Best Horror of March 2025: ‘The Woman in the Yard,’ ‘Opus’ and John Lithgow’s Nursing Home Thriller
#Variety #News #HorrorExplorer #Opus #TheRuleofJennyPen #TheWomanintheYard
https://variety.com/lists/horror-movies-to-watch-march-2025/
Apple added OPUS and FLAC support to AudioToolbox a while ago (iOS 17), but for some reason AVPlayer does not support it.
While I appreciate it, it feels very half ass. It’s like they want to use it internally (iMessage Audio Messages are using OPUS), but they don't want to incentivize a larger adoption of it.
So if you want to use OPUS to play audio, you need to build the whole HTTP Streaming mechanic on your own.
#apple #iosdev #opus #audio #flac #xiph
John Malkovich on the ‘Fun,’ but ‘Very Odd Experience’ Shooting ‘Fantastic Four’ and Singing Pop Songs in ‘Opus’
#Variety #Columns #News #JohnMalkovich #JustForVariety #Opus #TheFantasticFour
Acabo de hacer pruebas con #Kdenlive y parece que, después de meses, no le han echado un vistazo a esto. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492708
Es una pena que los formatos de vídeo libres tengan tan poco apoyo entre los círculos del #SoftwareLibre, porque sé que #PeerTube le da la espalda a #VP9 y #AV1.
Pues nada, a seguir tirando de la bazofia privativa e ineficiente de #H264 / #x264, y como no, con el también privativo #AAC para el audio frente a #OGG y #Opus.
A24’s ‘Opus’ Releases John Malkovich Track From Nile Rodgers & The Dream — Recorded Between Sessions With Beyoncé
#News #A24 #AyoEdebiri #JohnMalkovich #MarkAnthonyGreen #NileRodgers #Opus #TheDream
Thank you for sharing!
At Sundance, Ayo Edebiri, Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Russell Tovey & More Talk Need For LGBTQ Representation Amid Trump 2.0: “We Have To Stay Visible”
#Festivals #News #AndrewAhn #AudMasonHyde #AyoEdebiri #BowenYang #CarmenEmmi #Exclusive #GLAAD #HanGichan #HeightenedScrutiny #JamesSweeney #Jimpa #KissoftheSpiderWoman #LilyGladstone #LoveGlenn #MurrayBartlett #Opus #Plainclothes #RussellTovey #Sundance #Sundance2025
https://deadline.com/2025/02/ayo-edebiri-bowen-yang-lgbtq-representation-sundance-1236274974/
