Re: A Big Proposal: A way to control quality/resolution/framreate/simulcast/layering with RtpSender from Martin Thomson on 2014-02-19 (public-orca@w3.org from February 2014)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:44:49 -0800
To: Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com>
Cc: Chris Wendt <chriswendt@hotmail.com>, "public-orca@w3.org" <public-orca@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CABkgnnWgz7_MAFqmEWcQE6F_Y3JrQZjCHPG3WvmLzw8NDfUT9w@mail.gmail.com>

On 19 February 2014 14:35, Peter Thatcher <pthatcher@google.com> wrote:
> Scale is there for the benefit of simulcast.  If you're not doing simulcast,
> you can pretty much ignore it.  And for the discussion of priority and
> bandwidth, scale doesn't really factor in.  Although... maybe someone can
> come up with another use case for it.

I can.  In recent discussions, we've reached the conclusion that as
bandwidth reduces you have to scale down at some point to protect
quality or frame rate.  Setting a lower *target* scale allows the
browser to make that choice.

Received on Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:45:17 UTC