Re: [rtcweb] Plan A, respun

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 08 May 2013 16:26 UTC

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On 8 May 2013 09:13, Emil Ivov <emcho@jitsi.org> wrote:
> Well in that case the "won't be able to use lots of streams" part
> doesn't necessarily apply. In the RTP translator case described above
> one could easily have hundreds of SSRCs and hundreds of streams.

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend the use of SDP for signaling that sort of session.

> This would actually be all the more reason not to mandate SSRCs during O/A.

If you plan to a) add lots and lots of streams to the same RTP session
and b) can't know ahead of time what the SSRCs are going to be.  Then
no current SDP proposal is going to work for you.