Hi all, > If you go to Silicon Valley and ask around, I'd be surprised if there aren't > 2-3 big companies using Codec2 internally for some project or research.
> There is at least one major radio manufacturer using FreeDV (Flexradio). The documentation on the Flexradio website is from 2016, which precedes Mode 2020 and perhaps 700D. https://www.flexradio.com/downloads/freedv-waveform-how-to-guide-pdf/# Also, this is an add-on to their Windows application. No mention of FreeDV modes on their transceiver alone. BTW: a google of "flexradio twelp" returns nothing either. Is there any better information on this? Compression, I've answered my own question: prompt$ zip ttt.zip done/2020-07-27-19-16-05_rxData.700C adding: done/2020-07-27-19-16-05_rxData.700C (deflated 28%) Not really enough, but with something targeted at this type of data?? Alan VK2ZIW On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 10:14:23 +0000, Adrian Musceac wrote > Free software is not popular at all among end users and it will probably > never be as popular as closed software. > > Instead, free software is incredibly popular and successful for enterprise > users and companies. Right now, from the largest 8 software companies in the > world, only one does not invest heavily into open source / free software. > Even Microsoft is moving into becoming a large player in this area. > > If you go to Silicon Valley and ask around, I'd be surprised if there aren't > 2-3 big companies using Codec2 internally for some project or research. > There is at least one major radio manufacturer using FreeDV (Flexradio). > > The big trend right now in radio systems is for the users to plug in a black > box (which is usually a digital transceiver based on chips like AD9361, > AD9371, ADRV9008) and all DSP to be done in the cloud (with free software a > major player here too). > > Since everything is done in the cloud, end users don't have to bother > understanding free software and investing time into it. Everything is > available to them as online information streams to consume. > > You're making a mistake trying to make FreeDV a major player on the amateur > market competing with established products. It may already be, just not on > the market you expect. > > Adrian > > On July 25, 2020 3:16:03 AM UTC, Brian Bartholomew via Freetel-codec2 > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think this is especially true when it comes to open source and > > community development. Squeezing into a tight performance envelope > > requires a lot of tedious optimization and the result is brittle and > > not easy to modify and experiment with because there isn't any room > > left. All that optimization may be unjustified if you're just going > > to throw out the design next year when the community comes up with > > something better. > > Ditto. > > Open source is what it is in part because people who are willing to > spend $10K every few years on a proprietary software system are not > willing to spend that on a less proprietary system whose source they > have available. > > Brian --------------------------------------------------- Alan VK2ZIW OpenWebMail 2.53, nothing in the cloud.
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