Re: [rtcweb] Media Synchronization (Re: Traffic should be encrypted. (Re: Let's define the purpose of WebRTC))

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

On 11/15/2011 08:52 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> (Editing the subject line, again, to note that we have strayed far far 
> off the original topic)
>
> On 11/14/11 11:47 PM, Neil Stratford wrote:
>> How can we achieve the media synchronization in WebRTC? In a 
>> traditional RTC endpoint the DTMF comes from the same source as the 
>> media, in many cases it's actually taken from the media itself. 
>> However in WebRTC the only way to trigger a DTMF event is through an 
>> asynchronous Javascript function call, which is not synchonized to 
>> the media. Do we assume that the function call happens 'at about the 
>> right time' and take that as the current timestamp to use?
>
> This actually raises a higher-level question of whether or not it is 
> possible to deliver arbitrary *synchronized* data alongside audio and 
> video. There is an argument that this is the domain of something like 
> "timed text track" and *not* a WebRTC-specific behavior of the side 
> data channel we've been talking about.
>
> I have an application that currently uses <that proprietary plugin we 
> don't talk about> to deliver streaming audio along with timecode that 
> can be displayed in-sync with the audio that I would love to run 
> inside a browser without <that plugin>.
audio/t140?