Re: [rtcweb] TCP vs UDP for media

On 2012-05-16 03:37, Young, Milan wrote:
> Yes, existing web technologies for transport would work fine.  In
> fact I wrote a demo based on WebSockets, the AudioAPI, and
> getUserMedia.  But it's a bit cludgy and only transmits PCM audio.
> 
> Would my use case for live access to an encoded media stream be a
> good fit for a revised MediaStreamRecorder?  Would this group the
> right place to host such an effort?

I think this is something you should take to the W3C. As it appear to be
primarily an API question. Getting access to the content in the JS
application or request the browser to record to a local file which later
can be uploaded it would not be in this WG.

Cheers

Magnus Westerlund
WG chair

> 
> Thanks
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Eric Rescorla [mailto:ekr@rtfm.com]
>  Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 4:47 PM To: Ralph Giles Cc: Young,
> Milan; rtcweb@ietf.org Subject: Re: [rtcweb] TCP vs UDP for media
> 
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Ralph Giles <giles@thaumas.net>
> wrote:
>> On 12-05-15 4:22 PM, Young, Milan wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm wondering if any thought has been given to TCP as a media
>>> transport.
>> 
>> Where low latency transmission isn't an issue, one can generally
>> fall back to established TCP-based protocols, like HTTP streaming
>> and websockets, so we haven't really worried about that angle in
>> the context of webrtc.
>> 
>> Recording the stream is a requirement, so probably something could
>> be built using that, merging recordings from each endpoint to fix
>> up any dropped packets.
> 
> Agreed. This seems like something that could be done using just 
> getUserMedia() plus existing Web technologies.
> 
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