[payload] EOC marker in RTP transport of JPEG XS

[Antonin Descampe <[e-mail]>]

Dear all,

In the current version of the ID of RTP payload format for ISO/IEC 21122 (JPEG XS)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-payload-rtp-jpegxs/

the EOC marker (end of codestream, 2 bytes long) is transported in its own RTP packet, which leads to a suboptimal situation when padding is enabled, as a complete RTP packet is used for transporting only 2 bytes of metadata.

Two solutions are envisioned to solve this issue:
1/ Include the EOC marker in the previous packet (the one containing entropy coded data from the last slice).
2/ Simply drop the EOC marker and mark the packet containing data from the last slice as the last packet of the frame.

We advocate for the second solution as it avoids mixing entropy-coded data and metadata within the same RTP packet, but it also has the drawback to require to regenerate an EOC marker at decoding side if a fully compliant JPEG XS codestream is needed.

Any opinion/advice on this ?

Any other comment on the current version of the RTP payload format is also welcome. FYI, the current version is a much simpler version than the previous one and is now in a pretty mature stage.

Kind regards,

Antonin Descampe


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