Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
Back in April, Olivier Crête questioned whether we really need separate
application types for RTP audio (XEP-0167) and RFC video (XEP-0180):
http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2008-April/018554.html
Olivier suggested that we could simply negotiate one RTP "channel" and
use it for anything that RTP can do -- voice, video, real-time text (RFC
4103), etc. I have not seen a lot of enthusiasm for this idea, but I
would like to make sure that we have consensus on keeping things as-is
before moving forward with the Jingle specs. If you have feedback on
this issue, please weigh in on the [email protected] list.
I'm in favour of simplifying things down so that there's as much in
common between audio/video channels as possible. Though the use of the
word "one" in the above paragraph seems to suggest a single RTP channel,
implying all media being received on a single UDP port. This would be a
bad idea at least where doing Jingle <-> SIP gateways is concerned, as
SIP uses separate UDP streams for each content type, so the gateway
would have to inspect each packet incoming on the Jingle side to
determine the payload type to send it out on the correct port.
I'll have a read through all the updated specs over the weekend, and try
to comment on them on Monday.
--
Paul
