The choice of particular audio-video compression technology is of vital interest to commercial and not-for-profit organizations involved in producing and delivering digital multimedia products and services. New York-based Paltalk’s choice to go with industry-standard H.264/Mpeg-4 AV for video and a combination of open source Speex and Siren as the audio codecs for its eponymous live Web video-teleconferencing service is a case in point. “Our codec choice proved to be wise indeed,” Paltalk founder and Chief Technical Officer Perry Scherer told LinuxInsider.
