Re: [payload] Non-media type parameters in SDP a=fmtp line

Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org> Fri, 25 May 2018 15:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [payload] Non-media type parameters in SDP a=fmtp line
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No-one can stop you putting whatever you like in that line, but the specification says that the a=fmtp: line carries the media type parameters only.

Colin



> On 25 May 2018, at 15:03, Ali C. Begen <ali.begen@networked.media> wrote:
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> I think so, but anything the receiver does not understand in SDP will be ignored.
> 
>> On May 25, 2018, at 4:43 PM, John Fletcher <John.Fletcher@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Is it permissible to include additional parameters, beyond those specified for the Media Type, in the SDP a=fmtp line?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> John Fletcher


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