Re: [rtcweb] selecting codec for RTCweb?

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

On 09/05/2011 07:09 PM, Stephan Wenger wrote:
> In this context, Alex and myself drafted and presented in Quebec
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wenger-rtcweb-layered-codec-00.tx
> t, which argues against mandation of codec technologies not supporting
> scalability.  I have not seen any significant discussion in Quebec or on
> this mailing list about codec selection, though there was some initial
> noise on this topic during the BOFs.
The other consideration that has been raised is, of course, the issue of 
license-insisted-on versus practiced-without-a-license codecs (I won't 
call them "license required" or "license free"; that would be presumptuous.)

I believe we need a baseline codec that is "good enough", but I have 
neither a clear picture on how to quantify "good enough", nor a 
conviction that the scalability advantages raised in draft-wenger are 
important enough to tilt the balance.

          Harald