On 06/04/2008 8:25 AM, Paul Witty wrote:
> Olivier CrĂȘte wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:06 +0100, Paul Witty wrote:
>>  
>>> Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>>    
>>>>> I was thinking of a direct analogy to the media field saying
>>>>> "audio" or
>>>>> "video" in your m-line in SDP. So like:
>>>>>
>>>>> <jingle>
>>>>>   <content name="asdf">
>>>>>     <description xmlns="...rtp" media="audio">
>>>>>       <payload-type>
>>>>>       <payload-type>
>>>>>     </description>
>>>>>     <transport/>
>>>>>   </content>
>>>>> </jingle>
>>>>>
>>>>> Then we'd just define some features to explain what media you
>>>>> supported,
>>>>> like:
>>>>>
>>>>> urn:...:jingle-rtp#media-audio
>>>>> urn:...:jingle-rtp#media-video
>>>>>             
>>>> Works for me.
>>>>         
>>> Add me to the list in favour as well.  What values are we planning to
>>> support for media?  Clearly 'audio' and 'video', and I'd like to push
>>> for 'content', which would be a second video stream used for things
>>> such as slide-shows.  Would we then support multiple channels of the
>>> same type?  I can't see a good reason why we would, but others may
>>> disagree.
>>>     
>>
>> The media attribute should directly match what SIP does and only
>> describes the "type" of data, not the content, so a second video channel
>> would be media="video" and the description of the content should be
>> somewhere else (like in name=""). There are good reasons to have
>> multiple video channel, slides are one, or stereoscopic chat or just
>> that SIP allows it.
>>
>>
>>   
> Can't argue with that.  We still need to specify the purpose of each so
> that we know which is the main video, and which are the slides, or which
> is the left and which the right.  The media attribute in the description
> tag tells us whether this is audio or video, but we'll need to either
> change the name attribute from being one which is "opaque and does not
> have semantic meaning" to one which unambiguously identifies the purpose
> of this media stream, or introduce another attribute to do so.  

I'm not opposed to using the 'name' for that. We've got it, we might as
well use it.

Peter

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