quinn VS opus

Compare quinn vs opus and see what are their differences.

quinn

Async-friendly QUIC implementation in Rust (by quinn-rs)

opus

Modern audio compression for the internet. (by xiph)
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quinn opus
23 26
3,459 2,092
3.0% 3.6%
9.4 9.7
about 21 hours ago 12 days ago
Rust C
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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quinn

Posts with mentions or reviews of quinn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-05.
  • Why HTTP/3 is eating the world
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2023
    Since it lives on top of UDP, I believe all you need is SOCK_DGRAM, right? The rest of QUIC can be in a userspace library ergonomically designed for your programming language e.g. https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn - and can interoperate with others who have made different choices.

    Alternately, if you need even higher performance, DPDK gives the abstractions you'd need; see e.g. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3565477.3569154 on performance characteristics.

  • Async rust – are we doing it all wrong?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    > Making things thread safe for runtime-agnostic utilities like WebSocket is yet another price we pay for making everything multi-threaded by default. The standard way of doing what I'm doing in my code above would be to spawn one of the loops on a separate background task, which could land on a separate thread, meaning we must do all that synchronization to manage reading and writing to a socket from different threads for no good reason.

    Why so? Libraries like quinn[1] define "no IO" crate to define runtime-agnostic protocol implementation. In this way we won't suffer by forcing ourselves using synchronization primitives.

    Also, IMO it's relatively easy to use Send-bounded future in non-Send(i.o.w. single-threaded) runtime environment, but it's almost impossible to do opposite. Ecosystem users can freely use single threaded async runtime, but ecosystem providers should not. If you want every users to only use single threaded runtime, it's a major loss for the Rust ecosystem.

    Typechecked Send/Sync bounds are one of the holy grails that Rust provides. Albeit it's overkill to use multithreaded async runtimes for most users, we should not abandon them because it opens an opportunity for high-end users who might seek Rust for their high-performance backends.

    [1]: https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn

  • quicssh-rs Rust implementation SSH over Quic proxy tool
    3 projects | /r/rust | 30 Apr 2023
    quicssh-rs is quicssh rust implementation. It is based on quinn and tokio
  • The birth of a package manager [written in Rust :)]
    2 projects | /r/rust | 17 Mar 2023
    Regarding Quinn, I had a blast this week resurrecting an old PR. Looking forward to the next!
  • Best performing quic implementation?
    4 projects | /r/rust | 5 Mar 2023
  • str0m a sans I/O WebRTC library
    3 projects | /r/rust | 18 Dec 2022
    By studying u/djcu/hachyderm.io (and others!) excellent work in Quinn, doing a sans I/O implementation of QUIC https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn we have a way forward.
  • durian - a high-level general purpose client/server networking library
    3 projects | /r/rust_gamedev | 7 Dec 2022
    QUIC isn't web/wasm-compatible because of https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/issues/1388, so durian wouldn't either since it's built on top of it.
  • FPS server with QUINN?
    3 projects | /r/rust | 29 Oct 2022
    Quinn, as in the implementation of QUIC? https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn
  • I built a Zoom clone 100% IN RUST
    12 projects | /r/rust | 24 Oct 2022
    You are right, I am planning to switch the transport to UDP + quic using the awesome QUINN library, https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn .
  • I write a secure UDP tunnel
    2 projects | /r/rust | 1 Oct 2022
    Hi, I am new to the community, I just started learning rust and created a secure UDP tunnel based on the Quinn library, thanks to Quinn, I didn't need to go into the detail of the QUIC protocol and quickly created a UDP tunnel, and thanks to the BBR congestion control algorithm it uses, the tunnel performs quite well with lousy and long fat network, I didn't do any benchmark, but it performs a lot better (higher throughput with LFN) than most of other TCP tunnel implementations I used before.

opus

Posts with mentions or reviews of opus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.
  • TSAC: Low Bitrate Audio Compression
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
    Opus doesn't support 44.1 kHz because compatibility and effort/benefit ratio:

    https://github.com/xiph/opus/issues/43

    The browser audio limitation is presumably a workaround to some bug or performance limitation that was relevant at some point in history (the site was created in 2014).

  • Permutation Iteration and Random Access
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2023
    There is a pattern here (that also goes with the author's prior article on inverting gauss' sum formula): Generally if if you can make a formula that counts the combination of things you can convert that into a code to encode and decode those combinations into indexes.

    So for example the opus audio codec needs to encode/decode vectors of dimension n whos absolute values sum to k. https://github.com/xiph/opus/blob/master/celt/cwrs.c#L74

    Or this rolling cuckoo filter that optimally encode/decode four sorted numbers in a range 0..2N with the constraint that the they span a range of N. https://github.com/sipa/bitcoin/blob/202006_cuckoo_filter/sr...

    If you're lucky there will be closed form expressions for the encoding and decoding equations. (There for both of the above, at least for some parameters, but in both those examples the implementations use small tables because for the ranges involved the tables end up being faster than sqrts).

  • A CPU in Sunvox
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Aug 2023
    Too bad 10Hz is a too slow to generate audio-rate bitops music.

    (e.g. https://github.com/xiph/opus/blob/master/tests/test_opus_enc... )

  • L’avenir de la loi Hadopi suspendu à une décision de la justice européenne
    1 project | /r/france | 16 Apr 2023
  • Global Underground Disk Images
    1 project | /r/House | 22 Mar 2023
    Could anyone help me get a disk image files for older Global Underground CDs? I encoded my old CDs into subpar mp3 files, and I'd now like to have high-quality Opus encodings and experiment across various bitrates.
  • Which is better Opus or AC3?
    1 project | /r/AskReddit | 18 Mar 2023
    Presumably, OP is referring to the Opus audio codec versus Dolby's AC3 codec.
  • HD: Opus?
    1 project | /r/pixelbuds | 8 Mar 2023
    Indeed. https://opus-codec.org/
  • Multiple tags with the same name in metadata
    2 projects | /r/ffmpeg | 8 Jan 2023
    If there are multiple tags with the same name, Ffmpeg will only use the last tag. If you really need to have multiple tags with the same name in your OPUS files, use opusenc instead (https://opus-codec.org/). Beware that some playback software does not display multiple artists gracefully.
  • I built a Zoom clone 100% IN RUST
    12 projects | /r/rust | 24 Oct 2022
    AFAIK ogg isn't really suitable for low latency audio streaming. Consider the Opus codec instead.
  • ffmpeg libopus producing larger file size for the same bitrate as compared to vorbis
    1 project | /r/opus | 12 Oct 2022
    I have asked on GitHub also https://github.com/xiph/opus/issues/263 in anyone wants to respond there.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing quinn and opus you can also consider the following projects:

quiche - 🥧 Savoury implementation of the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3

libvorbis - Haskell binding for libvorbis, for decoding Ogg Vorbis audio files

s2n-quic - An implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol

go-m3u8 - Parse and generate m3u8 playlists for Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) in Golang (ported from gem https://github.com/sethdeckard/m3u8)

h3

argos-translate - Open-source offline translation library written in Python

msquic - Cross-platform, C implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol, exposed to C, C++, C# and Rust.

vorbis - Reference implementation of the Ogg Vorbis audio format.

laminar - A simple semi-reliable UDP protocol for multiplayer games

vgmstream - vgmstream - A library for playback of various streamed audio formats used in video games.

neqo - Neqo, an implementation of QUIC in Rust

libopenaptx - Open Source implementation of Audio Processing Technology codec (aptX)