Re: RTP support for Real Media ?

[Ethendranath Bommaiah <[e-mail]>]

> That's correct.  We had floated a proposal for an optimized packet format
> as part of the original RTSP proposal back in 1996, but the group decided
> (rightly) that it didn't belong in the RTSP spec, and should be a separate
> proposal.  Given the arguments that were floating around at that time about
> the relative merits of compressing RTP headers independently from the
> IP/UDP layer, we decided to drop this proposal.
> 
> So, this indicates that perhaps we should dust off this proposal (and
> update with what we are currently doing).  If this is the consensus, we'll
> be glad to follow up with this.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Rob

Thanks for the response. I was wondering if you could also support
plain RTP along with the above mentioned compressed RTP header approach
(which I presume is proprietary). Also, would it be possible for you to
make your current approach public (in the form of a draft proposal,
perhaps) ?

Thanks,
Ethen