Discourse // Archive
Writing & Technical Notes
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Encoding to a budget, not to a setting
Discord rejects uploads over the server tier limit, and one overlay job can produce a 200 KB still or a 40 MB video. The fix was to treat the limit as a budget and negotiate quality downward.
Media
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Two clocks, one voice loop
Discord speaks Opus at 48 kHz stereo; the Gemini Live API speaks raw PCM at 24 kHz mono. Bridging them in real time is less about audio theory than about deciding who is allowed to wait.
Audio