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Re: [rtcweb] Proposed resolution on comfort noise

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Mon, 14 December 2015 12:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Proposed resolution on comfort noise
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I support this resolution.

I note that there's material in this discussion for an extensive
treatise on the pros and cons of offering CN at gateways. If someone
wishes to extract this as a PR against the -gateways draft, the draft is
at https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/gateways.


On 12/10/2015 11:14 PM, Ted Hardie wrote:
> After reading the discussion on the comfort noise issue, it appears
> that one way forward might be to adjust this language:
>
> "comfort noise (CN).  Receivers MUST support RFC3389 CN for streams
> encoded with G.711 or any other supported codec that  does not provide
> its own CN.”
>
> to say instead
>
> "comfort noise (CN).  WebRTC endpoints MUST support RFC3389 CN for
> streams encoded with G.711 or any other supported codec that  does not
> provide its own CN.”
>
> This would still allow non-WebRTC endpoints to omit CN support, while
> retaining the mandate for WebRTC endpoints.
>
> Does this resolve the issue?
>
> regards,
>
> Ted
>
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