Re: The abysmal state of interoperability for the m-section of SDP

Thanks for the report!

I assume that the individual issues have been filed in the respective
browsers' bug trackers - it would also be great if you could have a look
to see if there are web platform tests that test the behaviors that
cause non-interoperability; both things help us check the browsers
against the spec to see that they are in sync - and where they aren't,
which one is doing it wrong. (It might be the spec!)

Thanks for trying this out and reporting the results!


Den 25.08.2019 07:28, skrev Silvia Pfeiffer:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a bit of a rant, but I thought it would be important to share
> how painful it is right now to work across browsers with WebRTC and
> where I'd like to see some improvements.
> 
> We are an avid user of multiple parallel media streams between peers
> in a video call. We often send one or more screenshares at the same
> time as the video call itself. This makes it possible to look at a
> person while sharing the screen, something I've always found bizarre
> in most traditional video conferencing applications. We can't have
> that in a telehealth application where the clinician needs to always
> be able to see a patient.
> 
> In the past, we had no interoperability between Firefox and Chrome
> because Chrome supported Plan B (which incidentally worked really
> well) and Firefox did Unified Plan. We waited patiently for Chrome to
> support Unified Plan and rejoiced when it came. But we were out of
> luck. Moving to Unified Plan with Chrome didn't make sense for us,
> because Firefox decided to make secondary streams not use the ID that
> is passed in, but use something else altogether. So we held back,
> because we still couldn't make it work interoperably. (Thanks Firefox
> for not following the standard.)
> 
> Now, Safari has decided to jump to Unified Plan - rejoice! Oh, but
> wait! Instead of offering backwards compatibility, it removed Plan B.
> What!? We now face the bizarre issue that our iOS app (developed
> before Safari supported WebRTC) is now not able to interoperate with a
> modern Safari. Awesome, thanks.
> 
> Anyway, we soldier on. We have moved to Unified Plan and fortunately,
> Safari and Chrome are interoperable. Yay! But Firefox continues to
> plague us.
> 
> To support older versions of browsers, we now have to maintain an ever
> growing matrix of combinations of browser versions so we can indicate
> to a user who is joining a call whether they will have
> interoperability issues with the other peer - specifically we have to
> tell them whether screensharing is available to them or not. It would
> be really nice if the complexity of WebRTC interoperability would
> reduce over time, not continuously increase.
> 
> So much for news from the coalface... please get interoperable Unified
> Plan sorted - we have waited for more than 5 years for this already!
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Silvia.
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Received on Monday, 26 August 2019 18:46:49 UTC