On 05/30/2008 1:24 PM, Robert McQueen wrote:
> Paul Witty wrote:
>  > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I don't think Peter meant to say the same channel... :P 

Right, I used that term off-the-cuff.

> The idea
> is just using the same negotiation namespaces and XEP to describe all
> RTP media content, be it audio or video. 

Correct.

> We'd lose in so many ways by
> doing anything other than staying compatible with SDP here. It's just
> not a correct use of RTP to pretend that switching payload type is
> switching media type too.

Shall I take that as a vote for consolidating XEP-0167 and XEP-0180 into
one "Jingle-RTP" spec?

Peter

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