Re: video track "black" vs. "frozen frame"

Hello,
if I am not wrong, focusing on the NOT negotiation needed case, we are
discussing about stop/restart sending media from the RtpSender, typically
for the switching on/off feature.

So, from my point of view:

   - From the media perspective, the video should freeze as if the
   RtpReceiver does not receive media due to another situation (network
   problems, etc.)
   - Is application dependent knowing that the RtpSender has been stopped,
   signal this properly and manage the UI to set a black frame, hide the
   video, put a photo of the user or whatever it wants.

Best!!

2016-09-29 14:46 GMT+02:00 Stefan Håkansson LK <
stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com>:

> On 28/09/16 18:32, Bernard Aboba wrote:
> > Stefan said:
> >
> > "Is that the way we should go? And in case of simulticast, should
> > the displayed video freeze if encoding[0] is inactive, if any of the
> > encodings are inactive, or only if all of them are (assuming the
> > receiving browser is able to receive simulcast)?
> >
> > Or should we add a RtpSender global 'active' attribute? Or something
> > else?"
> >
> > [BA] I would expect a "video freeze" to be displayed if a receiver
> > stops receiving all video packets, however that happens.
> >
> > If the SFU is only sending a single video stream to the receiver,
> > then freeze would occur if that stream ceases to be received (or
> > there is very high loss that RTX/FEC cannot repair).
> >
> > If the sender stops sending an encoding to a receiver, that would not
> > cause a freeze if there were other encodings being sent to that
> > receiver , or the SFU decided to stop forwarding all encodings to
> > that receiver.
> >
> > If the receiver supported simulcast reception, it should not freeze
> > video if it was receiving at least one encoding.
>
> To me the above makes sense, the question is what we need to spec, and
> where.
>
> >
>
>
>


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