Re: [rtcweb] No Plan

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> Thu, 30 May 2013 15:14 UTC

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On 5/30/13 5:03 AM, Enrico Marocco wrote:
> On 5/29/13 11:00 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
>> Like Paul, I'll reserve a full judgement until I've had a little more
>> time to digest this.  At first read, though, it seems like there's a lot
>> of "magic happens here" in the draft.  There's an example of how you
>> establish a legacy-compatible stream, and an assertion that JS can do
>> the rest.  The truth of this assertion isn't obvious to me.  It would be
>> helpful if the document had an example of, say, how one might add a stream.
>
> This is how I'd do it, in a way that seems quite consistent with no-plan:
>
> 1. sender gets the additional local tracks
>
> 2. sender tells the receiver on the app-specific signalling channel
>     (assuming a plain-english-over-something one): "I can also send you
>     video and audio of a webcam I've just installed in the girls locker
>     room. They'll have SSRC xxx and yyy" (xxx and yyy retrieved through
>     JS API -- kind of what exists in Chrome today for stats)
>
> 3. receiver responds "Shoot!"

What does the receiver say if it can use the media, but cannot receive 
it over the *existing* audio and video m-lines where it is receiving 
other media already?

	Thanks,
	Paul

> 4. sender attaches the new tracks to the local stream attached to the
>     existing connection
>
> 	4.1. if appropriate media lines exist (i.e. with the required
>               media type and payloads), new media will be sent there,
>               same ports, new SSRCs
>
> 	or
>
> 	4.2. if a new media line is required, the sender receives an
>               event to be handled by an
>               RTCSessionDescriptionCallback-like callback that triggers
>               renegotiation in the usual app-specific way (AFAIK the API
>               doesn't have such an event right now)
>
> 5. receiver gets addtrack notifications and the application will take
>     care of their display, according to the app-specific information
>     received on the app-specific signalling channel
>
> The most critical part here is 4.2 (i.e. additional O/A exchanges, what
> no-plan tries to reduce). It would probably never happen when the sender
> is a browser, seldom otherwise.
>
> I'm certainly not the greatest JS expert, but I don't see an easier way
> to achieve this. I'm also not the greatest expert of legacy RTP devices
> (although I deal with them every day), but I'm pretty convinced that for
> such non-trival scenarios some kind of gatewaying will be required
> anyway. The no-plan approach seems to make it easier than both plan A
> and plan B.
>
> Enrico
>
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