Re: [AVTCORE] Magnus Westerlund's Discuss on draft-ietf-payload-rtp-ttml-03: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Magnus Westerlund <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

This is an updated Discuss with the issue of missing SDP O/A parts that Christer
Holmberg did notice. I put this on discuss level as it really need to be fixed.
I think we all missed it due to the fact that the media type definition is
elsewhere. 

Cheers

Magnus

On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 07:02 -0700, Magnus Westerlund via Datatracker wrote:
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> DISCUSS:
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> James and WG,
> 
> I do have a couple of issues I want to have your feedback on if they should be
> corrected or not before proceeding to publication. Note they are for
> discussion
> and in cases where things have been discussed and there is consensus please
> reference that so that I can take that into consideration when we resolve
> these.
> 
> 1. Section 4.1:
>         Timestamp:
>         The RTP Timestamp encodes the time of the text in the packet.
> 
>         As timed text is a media that has duration, from a start time to an
> end
>         time, and the RTP timestmap is a single time tick in the chose clock
>         resolution the above text is not clear. I would think the start time
> of
>         the document would be the most useful to include?
> 
>         I think the text in 4.2.1.2 combined with the above attempts to imply
>         that the RTP timestamp will be the 0 reference for the time-
> expression?
> 
>         I think this needs a bit more clarification. Not having detailed
>         studied TTML2/1 I might be missing important details. But some more
>         information how the document timebase:media time line connects to the
>         RTP timestamp appears necessary.
> 
> 2. A Discuss Discuss: As Timed Text is directly associated with one or more
> video and audio streams and requires synchronization with these other media
> streams to function correct. This leads to two questions.
> 
>         First of all is application/ttml+xml actually the right top-level
> media
>         type? If using SDP that forces one unless one have BUNDLE to use a
>         different RTP session. Many media types having this type of properties
>         of being associated with some other media types have registered media
>         types in all relevant top-level media types.
> 
>         Secondly, this payload format may need some references to mechanisms
> in
>         RTP and signalling that has the purpose of associating media streams?
> I
>         also assume that we have the interesting cases with localization that
>         different languages have different time lines for the text and how
> long
>         it shows as there are different tranditions in different countries and
>         languages for how one makes subtitles.
> 
>         This may also point to the need for discussing the pick one out of n
>         mechanism that a manifest may need.
> 
> 3. Section 7.1:
> 
>         It may be appropriate to use the same Synchronization
>    Source and Clock Rate as the related media.
> 
>         Using the same SSRC as another media stream in the same RTP Session is
>         no-no. If you meant to use multiple RTP sessions and associate them
>         using the same SSRC in diffiernt, yes it works but is not recommended.
>         This points to the need for a clearer discussion of how to achieve
>         linkage and the reasons for why same RTP timestamp may be useful or
> not.
> 
> 4. Fragmentation:
>         I think the fragmentation of an TTML document across multiple RTP
>         payloads are a bit insufficiently described. I have the impression
> that
>         it is hard to do something more clever than to fill each RTP payload
> to
>         MTU limtiation, and send them out insequence. However, I think a firm
>         requirement to apply RTP sequence number for a single document in
>         consecutive numbers. Also the re-assebly process appear to have to
>         parts for detecting what belongs together, same timestamp and last
>         packet of document should have marker bit set. As a receiver can loose
>         the last packet in the previous document, still know that it has
>         received everything for the following document. However, if the losses
>         are multiple, inspection of the re-assemblied document will be
>         necessary to determine if the correct beginning is present. I have the
>         impression that a proper section discussing these matter of
>         fragmentation and re-assembly are necessary for good interoperability
>         and function.
> 
> 5. Lack of definition of parameter types in the media type when using SDP
> Offer/answer.
> 
> As the application/ttml media type do contain parameters (charset and profile)
> there is a need to define what SDP O/A interpretations they need to have. See
> section 3.4.2.1 of RFC 8088 for discussion of these different types.
> 
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> COMMENT:
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> 
> A. Section 6.
>         To my understanding the TTML document is basically not possible to
>         encode better. A poor generator can create unnecessary verbose XML
>         which could be shorter, but there are no possibility here to trade-off
>         media quality for lower bit-rate. I think that should be made more
>         explicit in Section 6.
> 
> B. Section 7.
>         Wouldn't using 90kHz be the better default? 1kHz is the minimal from
>         RTCP report that will work decently. However, if the timed text is
>         primarily going to be synchronized with video 90k do ensure that
>         (sub-)frame precise timing is possible to express. I don't see any
> need
>         raster line specific for time text so the SMPTE 27 MHz clock is not
>         needed. And using non default for subtitling radio etc appears fine.
> 
> C. Repair operations and relation to documents. Based on basic properties of
> TTML documents, I do think the repair operations should be highly targeting
> single documents as there is likely seconds between documents, while the
> fragments of a document will be sent in a rather short interval. That
> recommendation would be good to include.
> 
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Magnus Westerlund 


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