[xiph-rtp] Lots of proposals

[Aaron Colwell]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:36:46AM -0700, Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:51:41AM -0700, Aaron Colwell wrote:
> 
> > I suppose one other possibility could be to put the codebooks in their own RTP
> > session. A client could then listen to that session for as long as it took to
> > receive the codebooks and then close down that session. I'm not really a huge
> > fan of this particular idea since it has a much higher overhead then a simple
> > HTTP transfer.
> 
> Weren't we planning on describing this as an option for multicast? 
> Unicast solutions would be welcome to use it to, although I agree
> HTTP makes more since for those cases.

Yes. In a multicast scenario it would be a good idea to have the codebooks
transmitted in their own session. That session should probably flagged in some
way to indicate that it only contains codebooks. I suppose people could also
do this in a unicast case, but HTTP seems like a better option.

Aaron
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>  -r
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