[xiph-rtp] Difficulties with several RTP streams for a Vorbis stream.

[Tor-Einar Jarnbjo]

Ramón García wrote:

>> Is it less "surprising" for the media framework to read the setup header
>> from an http url?"
>>   
>
> That is always posible. The depacketizer can create a socket and open
> a connection to a server on its own.

If the depacketizer is able to open a http connection to a server, it 
will also be able to join a separate RTP session to get the setup header.

> Sending the codebook data in the RTP data stream is scalable. As it is
> sent once to all clients, thus it is not degraded with the number of
> clients.It is correct that it is sent to more clients than necessary,
> but they way multicasting works that does not degrade server
> performance,

Not server performance, but you may/will get into a client side 
bandwidth problem as all clients are receiving the setup header every 
time a client is requesting it.

> happens with your method, unless a different IP multicast address is
> used for the RTP session that sends codebooks
>
It does not have to be a different IP address. A different port is enough.

Tor