Synchronization of data and media (Re: Call for adoption - WEBRTC-QUIC)

On 11/23/2018 10:58 PM, Nils Ohlmeier wrote:
>
>> On 23Nov, 2018, at 13:40, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/23/2018 11:02 AM, Sergio Garcia Murillo wrote:
>>> On 23/11/2018 10:52, westhawk wrote:
>>>> One problem that QUIC_theoretically_  solves is the congestion
>>>> control problem by bringing everything under
>>>> the same protocol, but only if you move all media to QUIC and ban RTP.
>>> Just for the sake of completeness, the other problem that QUIC solves
>>> is the sync between media and data, something that is not achievable
>>> today between SCTP and RTP (AFAIK).
>>>
>>> This is already contemplated on the webrtc NV uses cases and it is a
>>> critical issue for many applications (for example VR ones)
>> I've made a couple of stabs in the past at making correlation possible
>> between data and media (the easiest seems to be to offer access to the
>> RTP timestamp of the frames on both sides of the connection). But those
>> efforts have petered out for lack of interest.
> As there seems to be general agreement that this use case is now interesting maybe the easier solution would be to revive one of these now and deliver a probably quicker solution for these uses, instead of establishing new transport protocols for which the synchronization would have to be solved as well.


The proposal I made at one point (exposing timestamps) is detailed here:

https://github.com/alvestrand/webrtc-framelog

Received on Saturday, 24 November 2018 07:34:27 UTC