Talk:Cook Codec

Proposing merge to RealAudio, which mentions cook codec. Not finding significant coverage via Google, Wikipedia Library, and SpringerLink, though the codec is often mentioned as a security vulnerability. Cielquiparle (talk) 16:43, 25 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

@Kvng What do you think? Cielquiparle (talk) 16:45, 25 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

You say it is often mentioned and also no significant coverage. Those are potentially incompatible statements. Can you elaborate with examples why you think both are true? ~Kvng (talk) 16:54, 25 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

@Kvng Because they are security vulnerability reports like this one and this one. Perhaps we could try to build an article based on security vulnerability reports, but not finding much to verify all the other claims in the article as it currently stands. Cielquiparle (talk) 21:42, 25 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

Merging to RealAudio would be a preferred WP:ATD if someone is insistent on trying to delete this. I'd prefer to try and improve the article. I'd hope we could find at least primary sourcing to verify the FFmpeg and Rockbox implementations. ~Kvng (talk) 23:37, 25 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

I don't believe the security vulnerability reports count as secondary sources, and without any additional sources, I doubt SIGCOV is met. Would favor redirecting. Clarinetguy097 (talk) 05:52, 28 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]

There seems to be more mentions of this if you search it under the other names (RealAudio G2). That said, I wouldn't oppose a merge or redirect to RealAudio if no additional coverage turns up. There's a blog post that goes more in-depth on Cook, but it's not really a usable source [1]

The documentation for ffmpeg would work as a primary source: [2], under 2.4 Audio Codecs ARandomName123 (talk)^{Ping me!} 01:15, 29 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]