Re: [MMUSIC] Wisdom sought: Prioritization of codecs

[Bernard Aboba <[e-mail]>]

Adam Roach said:

"I need to catch up on CLUE before I can talk to that very much. I'd been
pretty much ignoring CLUE; but in Atlanta, it became clear that CLUE's
impact was going to seep out into every other working group in RAI."

[BA] I think it is probably correct to say that the questions asked in CLUE
are relevant to many other working groups in RAI, including RTCWEB.   Today
even a moderately priced computer can support multiple monitors, as well as
multiple cameras, each of which can support a layered codec, and the cost of
business-grade telepresence systems has come down by an order of magnitude
in the last few years.  Given these trends, it is inevitable that WebRTC
will eventually support these scenarios.  Thinking that through now will
avoid a lot of pain later. 

Adam said:

"I just think we're rushing down a path of throwing out a lot of good to get
rid of a little bit of bad. I'd like to see more discussion around less
radical changes to SDP to achieve the goals of CLUE and RTCWEB."

[BA]  It certainly makes sense to ensure that the WebRTC architecture can
handle CLUE scenarios.   In fact, I do believe that some basic CLUE
scenarios (such as support for multiple cameras and monitors) are already
implementable in some WebRTC implementations, without much in the way of SDP
or API changes.