Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Thu, 21 November 2013 21:59 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 13:58:59 -0800
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar <
basilgohar@librevideo.org> wrote:

> On 11/21/2013 03:52 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> > On 21 November 2013 12:48, Basil Mohamed Gohar
> > <basilgohar@librevideo.org> wrote:
> >> Has anyone actually objected to H.261 being the one MTI codec [...] ?
> >
> > More than one person has already.
> >
> > And I find the argument raised quite compelling.  It's hard to justify
> > spending valuable time and resources on implementing something that
> > crappy.
> >
>
> (another case of replying to the person and not the list)
>
> It's no more crappy than having G.711 as a fallback audio codec for
> legacy purposes, which we've already done for rtcweb audio.


And there was really significant debate about that. The argument that
ultimately carried the day was that

(a) G.711 was trivial
(b) There were major interop advantages for the PSTN.

Neither of these two considerations applies here.

-Ekr


>  I realize
> that it's not the same thing, but no other alternative codec has been
> presented that satisfies the blocking issues for choosing either VP8 or
> H.264 as MTI, namely, the IPR- or possibly-IPR-related issues.
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