[MMUSIC] The pick-a-config debate - perhaps an useful example

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

I don't like the name "demux", as I've said before.
Neither do I like the term "select an m-line", because I don't think 
that's the only possible solution to the problem we're facing.

I think the problem we're facing can be illustrated like this: What 
resolution is permitted in the following config? (apologies in advance 
for syntactic brokenness)

a=group:BUNDLE foo bar

m=video
a=mid:foo
a=imageattr:* [x=160,y=100]
a=rtpmap:96:vp8

m=video
a=mid:bar
a=imageattr:* [x=640,y=480]
a=rtpmap:96:vp8

Now, the video is the same. The payload type is the same. But the sender 
of this SDP has stated an opinion about the image size that is in the 
form of M-line-related attributes.

Query: Is this the problem we're discussing?

Some solutions that have been suggested:

My interpretation of Plan A: Create two payload types that both mean "vp8".

m=video
a=imageattr:* [x=160,y=100]
a=rtpmap:96:vp8

m=video
a=imageattr:* [x=640,y=480]
a=rtpmap:97:vp8

My interpretation of a pure Plan B: Do SSRC-related signalling.

m=video
a=ssrc:4378 imageattr:* [x=160,y=100]
a=rtpmap:96:vp8
a=ssrc:9736 imageattr:* [x=640,y=480]

(we don't need a second m-line here)

For this particular attribute, there's also a plan with features of both:

m=video
a=imageattr:96 [x=160,y=100]
a=rtpmap:96:vp8
a=imageattr:97 [x=640,y=480]
a=rtpmap:97:vp8

but this one works only with a=imageattr because imageattr has a payload 
type.

A fourth solution is to decode the first frame, figure out how big it 
is, and see if we have a config it fits into. That sounds bizarre.

A fifth solution is to declare a complete ban on conflicting attributes 
in bundled M-lines. Just Don't Do It.
That reduces the expressive power of M-lines to what I was thinking 
about when I wrote the first bundle proposal: It's a way to describe a 
single RTP session, and what you can't say about a single RTP session, 
you can't say about a bundle describing a single RTP session either.

But that might not be what people want.