Re: Signalling of start / stop

On 21/01/14 19:51, Bernard Aboba wrote:
> Stefan said:
>
>> I think it is a bad idea to not signal and just stop sending RTP - the
>> receiver would then have to guess if the sender stopped sending temporarily,
>> or if there are a lot of packet losses, or if there is a speech pause (and
>> CN should be generated) etc.
>
> [BA] I would agree that a packet may need to be sent as the result of a stop(), pause() or resume().
> However, it looks to me like the action may depend on the specific configuration and codec.
>
> An example of this is SST SVC where in some codecs (e.g. VP8) there may be no packet sent to
> indicate dropping a layer, just a reconfiguration of the encoder, whereas in others (e.g. H.264)
> a codec-specific packet might be sent (SEI layer drop).
>
> In MST SVC it is possible that the situation could be different if we can assume thatl WebRTC implementations
> understand TMMBR and therefore a TMMBR message with maximum bandwidth of zero might be
> used to pause individual layers (or simulcast streams, for that matter).

Assuming you mean TMMBN in this case (i.e. the sender pauses) I agree. 
Section 5.2 in 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-westerlund-avtext-rtp-stream-pause/?include_text=1 
talks about this.


Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:42:02 UTC