Re: [rtcweb] Why requiring pre-announcement of SSRCs is a problem for conferencing ( Was: New Version Notification for draft-uberti-rtcweb-plan-00.txt )

"Cullen Jennings (fluffy)" <fluffy@cisco.com> Thu, 30 May 2013 19:29 UTC

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From: "Cullen Jennings (fluffy)" <fluffy@cisco.com>
To: Emil Ivov <emcho@jitsi.org>
Thread-Topic: [rtcweb] Why requiring pre-announcement of SSRCs is a problem for conferencing ( Was: New Version Notification for draft-uberti-rtcweb-plan-00.txt )
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Why requiring pre-announcement of SSRCs is a problem for conferencing ( Was: New Version Notification for draft-uberti-rtcweb-plan-00.txt )
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On May 14, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Emil Ivov <emcho@jitsi.org> wrote:

> The issue that I am referring to (I describe this in an earlier mail to
> Harald here http://goo.gl/M8NbQ ) is that of a conference based on an
> RTP translator. It's basically what we do in Jitsi Videobridge.

Many deployments use a mixer instead of a translator from an RTP point of view. I understand at the media level you would not decode / encode or mix the media but at the RTP layer the bridge could have it's own SSRC and put the SSRC of the original sender in the CSRC. 

Any reason you choose a translator over a mixer when building a conferencing fencing bridge?