Re: RED and FEC and RTX (and related questions!)

2016-03-04 19:14 GMT+01:00 Bernard Aboba <Bernard.Aboba@microsoft.com>:
> Also, including RTX/RED/FEC as codecs enables ORTC to be used with simple
> capabilities exchange signaling where only payload types are available.  An
> example might be a 1-1 audio/video scenario where RTX/RED/FEC is turned on,
> but encodings[0].ssrc, encodings[0].fec.ssrc and encodings[0].rtx.ssrc might
> not be set.
>
> So given those concerns, RTX/RED/FEC have been kept as codecs, with codec
> capabilities and settings having been filled in within the latest Editor’s
> draft.

My opinion regarding this is very clear: When an API offers more than
a single way to express the same, something is wrong and will lead to
interoperability problems (vendor A expects "way A" of indicating X
which vendor B expects "way B" of indicating X).



-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>

Received on Friday, 4 March 2016 21:45:18 UTC