Re: [rtcweb] Video codec selection: Dropping options

[Magnus Westerlund <[e-mail]>]

Markus,

I would note that I consider this suggestion highly problematic at this
time. Especially considering the process we have proposed for selecting
a winning alternative. The issue is that we had an open call for
proposals to be considered. To be able to exclude options I see a need
for both a process and consensus to use this process to eliminate options.

I hope you see the problem with eliminating alternatives by any form of
chair decision at this time. Thus we would be forced to run different
sets of consensus calls to determine if there are consensus to eliminate
as well as which.

Thus, I would consider your comment as, the process we chairs are
proposing is the wrong one.

Cheers

Magnus


On 2013-11-28 09:22, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not much in favor of the voting, but if we do it:
> 
> Based on the consensus call we already held in Vancouver, I would propose to drop from the list in [1] any options that make exclusively VP8 mandatory to implement or exclusively H.264 mandatory to implement. I think we have already established that much, and including those options in any vote seems wrong. 
> 
> In practice I'm talking about these four options:
> 1. All entities MUST support H.264
> 2. All entities MUST support VP8
> 3. All entities MUST support both H.264 and VP8 
> 4. Browsers MUST support both H.264 and VP8, other entities MUST support at least one of H.264 and VP8
> 
> What the WG should focus on is to see if there is a consensus on any of the so called "fallback" options vs. no MTI. I think these are all valid as such as a "fallback":
> 
> 5. All entities MUST support at least one of H.264 and VP8
> 6. All entities MUST support H.261
> 7. There is no MTI video codec
> 8. 5+6, i.e. All entities MUST support H.261 and all entities MUST support at least one of H.264 and VP8
> 9. All entities MUST support Theora
> 10. All entities MUST implement at least two of {VP8, H.264, H.261}
> 11. All entities MUST implement at least two of {VP8, H.264, H.263}
> 12. All entities MUST support decoding using both H.264 and VP8, and MUST support encoding using at least one of H.264 or VP8
> 13. All entities MUST support H.263
> 14. All entities MUST implement at least two of {VP8, H.264 CBP, Theora}
> 15. All entities MUST support decoding using Theora.
> 
> I think it would be problematic even if one of options 1-4 came out as a winner from a voting procedure, since it would force a large part of the community to implement something they have valid reasons to avoid. Some of the options 5-15 may have issues as well, but at least a consensus call among them would still be in order, since we haven't really had it so far. And presumably the issues and polarization are "smaller" than with the VP8 vs. H.264 argument. 
> 
> Regards,
> 	Markus
> 
> [1] http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/trac/wiki/WikiStart
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