On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 18:21 -0400, Olivier Crête wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:17 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > On 06/09/2008 4:16 PM, Olivier Crête wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:02 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> > >> On 06/09/2008 2:30 PM, Olivier Crête wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 16:17 -0400, Jeff Muller wrote:
> > >>>>> On 06/06/2008 1:23 PM, Jeff Muller wrote:
> > >>>>>> I didn't quite glean this from the spec and am not sure if it's been
> > >>>>>> discussed in this forum, but is there a way to associate two streams 
> > >>>>>> (or
> > >>>>>> two <content /> entities)? Typically, for a video "call", there are 
> > >>>>>> two
> > >>>>>> streams, audio and video. You want these two streams associated in 
> > >>>>>> the
> > >>>>>> client a) so that they can be presented in an associated way (camera 
> > >>>>>> and
> > >>>>>> speaker controls near each other), and b) so that they can be 
> > >>>>>> associated
> > >>>>>> for lip sync. Especially if there are two video streams (for example,
> > >>>>>> there's a document camera), you want to know which is the "main" 
> > >>>>>> stream
> > >>>>>> that goes (by default) in the main window with the audio controls. Or
> > >>>>>> for that matter, if you only want to allow one video stream, you know
> > >>>>>> which one to do a content-remove on.
> > >>>>> Wouldn't the associated media simply be part of the same RTP session? 
> > >>>>> Or
> > >>>>> do you want the ability to associate media across RTP sessions?
> > >>>> I'm definitely not an RTP expert here. But from a quick web search... 
> > >>>> Isn't
> > >>>> each multimedia type limited to a separate RTP session? From what I 
> > >>>> read, a
> > >>>> session really just consists of the port pairs for the (single) RTP and
> > >>>> (single) RTCP streams. Maybe?
> > >>> You definitely want to be able to associate multiple RTP sessions to
> > >>> synchronize them. We should define that all the sessions within the same
> > >>> Jingle negotiation should be synchronized.
> > >>>
> > >>> All the RTP sessions (call media aka m= lines) inside the same SDP are
> > >>> supposed to be synchronized too.
> > >> So what is the right term for a synchronized set of RTP sessions (e.g.,
> > >> the audio and video sessions from Section 9.3 of XEP-0167)?
> > > 
> > > There does not seem to be a standard name for the set of synchronized
> > > RTP sessions. In SIP, they call it a SIP session (how confusing can that
> > > be). In Farsight2, we call it a conference (but it may not be the
> > > greatest name). I think you can just write something like "all RTP
> > > sessions defined in the same Jingle channel should be synchronized" or
> > > something to that effect.
> > 
> > Right now I have this:
> > 
> > ***
> > 
> > A Jingle negotiation MAY result in the establishment of multiple RTP
> > sessions (e.g., one for audio and one for video). An application SHOULD
> > consider all of the RTP sessions that are established via the same
> > Jingle negotiation to be synchronized for purposes of streaming,
> > playback, recording, etc.
> > 
> > ***
> > 
> > Perhaps it's not a good idea to include the text about purposes...
> 
> That seems good to me, with or without the purposes

I don't know if we want to go this way.. but a new IETF draft was just
published to add a way to explicitly state the grouping to
synchronization purposes.

URL: 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc3388bis-00.txt

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Olivier Crête
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