Re: "pranswer" status (or get rid of it)

> On May 23, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> wrote:
> 
> 2017-05-23 0:44 GMT+02:00 Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca>:
>> Lets say the offer in step 1 included a hardware codec for video, the question of relevance for browsers is if in step 5 the SDP did not use that hardware codec, are the resources freed so another tab or application could use the hardware codec. In step 8, if that SDP used the hardware codec, that would fail if they were freed in step 5 and used by something else.
> 
> Got your point, but I've never seen that scenario and I expect it
> won't really happen in any real one. Basically because pranswer is
> just "useful" in VoIP early-media.
> 

It regularly happens on mobile devices. 

On a desktop system you can often fall back to a software version of codec just at lower resolution but often on mobile devices the software fallback would be so crappy that it is just too small to even bother using.

Received on Friday, 26 May 2017 13:46:25 UTC