Re: To Stream or not to Stream

On 14/06/2018 19:44, Peter Thatcher wrote:
> I'm glad we're sounding more on the same page now :).  We all want 
> lower-level components that can get assembled together by the app.  
>  And streams vs. not-streams is the secondary to the question of what 
> these components are and how they get connected.
>
> The crux of the problem seems to be that we have two seemingly 
> conflicting properties:
>
> 1.  Apps that want to be in the media path can be.
> 2.  Apps that don't want to be don't have to be.
>

If we are able to agree that we need both, and define at which points 
the apps want to insert themselves in the media path based on the use 
cases, I would consider this exercise a success. We would only need to 
decompose the rtpsender/rtprecevier into their minimal components, the 
cardinality between them (1-1,1-n,n-m) and we would be ready to start 
working on the API itself.

I am not going to comment on the rest of your email, because while I 
might agree with most of it, I want to avoid previous mistakes and wait 
until we have a clear view of the previous points before going into more 
technical details.

Best regards
Sergio