Re: [rtcweb] Video codec selection: Dropping options

[Leon Geyser <[e-mail]>]

I also agree on this.

Also 5 does not mean anything.
I don't like my own option of 8 that much, because 10 is much better :)
11 and 13 are scary options.
If 12 is possible it would be a great option. Do most patents only apply
for encoding?

I am a bit confused about option 15. How does that one work?
Let's say I have a two sides: H.264 encoding/decoding + Theora decoder and
the other side has VP8 encoding/decoding + Theora decoder. How do they
communicate?


On 28 November 2013 10:22, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not much in favor of the voting, but if we do it:
>
> Based on the consensus call we already held in Vancouver, I would propose
> to drop from the list in [1] any options that make exclusively VP8
> mandatory to implement or exclusively H.264 mandatory to implement. I think
> we have already established that much, and including those options in any
> vote seems wrong.
>
> In practice I'm talking about these four options:
> 1. All entities MUST support H.264
> 2. All entities MUST support VP8
> 3. All entities MUST support both H.264 and VP8
> 4. Browsers MUST support both H.264 and VP8, other entities MUST support
> at least one of H.264 and VP8
>
> What the WG should focus on is to see if there is a consensus on any of
> the so called "fallback" options vs. no MTI. I think these are all valid as
> such as a "fallback":
>
> 5. All entities MUST support at least one of H.264 and VP8
> 6. All entities MUST support H.261
> 7. There is no MTI video codec
> 8. 5+6, i.e. All entities MUST support H.261 and all entities MUST support
> at least one of H.264 and VP8
> 9. All entities MUST support Theora
> 10. All entities MUST implement at least two of {VP8, H.264, H.261}
> 11. All entities MUST implement at least two of {VP8, H.264, H.263}
> 12. All entities MUST support decoding using both H.264 and VP8, and MUST
> support encoding using at least one of H.264 or VP8
> 13. All entities MUST support H.263
> 14. All entities MUST implement at least two of {VP8, H.264 CBP, Theora}
> 15. All entities MUST support decoding using Theora.
>
> I think it would be problematic even if one of options 1-4 came out as a
> winner from a voting procedure, since it would force a large part of the
> community to implement something they have valid reasons to avoid. Some of
> the options 5-15 may have issues as well, but at least a consensus call
> among them would still be in order, since we haven't really had it so far.
> And presumably the issues and polarization are "smaller" than with the VP8
> vs. H.264 argument.
>
> Regards,
>         Markus
>
> [1] http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/trac/wiki/WikiStart
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