Re: [rtcweb] State of the Forking discussion

Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@acmepacket.com> Thu, 03 November 2011 13:03 UTC

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On Nov 3, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> Right. But note however that most of the SIP devices just choose a
> single media session and render that to the human (regardless there
> could be N sessions due to multiple 18X with different Totag and
> SDPs). So I don't consider this a very important limitation as the
> very same occurs in 99% of SIP phones.
> 

Yes but what's cool is that browsers are a platform type that could actually render two streams at the same time: per the current requirements, the browser can mix incoming audio streams and display separate videos, and send out the same audio/video to multiple peers - so parallel forking could actually really work well for in WebRTC as compared to SIP.  :)

But anyway as we keep saying, we don't need native forking ability in the browser for WebRTC's sake, since it can all be done with app code - the main benefit to having it is to federate/interop with SIP more easily/sanely.

How hard is it to put in the browsers?  Has W3C given any input on this?

-hadriel