Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Video Codec contributions

Neil Stratford <neils@belltower.co.uk> Tue, 16 October 2012 13:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Summary of Video Codec contributions
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Magnus Westerlund
<magnus.westerlund@ericsson.com> wrote:
> WG,
>
> The Video Codec selection internet draft to RTCWEB WG I have seen are
> the following four:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-dbenham-webrtc-videomti-00.txt
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-alvestrand-rtcweb-vp8/
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-burman-rtcweb-h264-proposal/
>
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-marjou-rtcweb-video-codec/
>
> Please review information and proposals and lets start discussing them
> on the mailing list prior to the WG meeting in Atlanta.

Something that concerns me about video codecs is the availability of a
scalable coding profile. Many plugins that we are trying to replace
with WebRTC appear to be starting to make use of scalable coding
techniques to enable efficient multi-party calls. To encourage the
replacement of such plugins the codec specified in WebRTC should offer
the ability to match what is best practice today.

I understand that H.264 has Annex G, and that VP8 has something
similar. Are there any issues around making this MTI for either codec
that would help drive a decision?

Neil