[xiph-rtp] Section 6, Congestion (Re: xiph-rtp Digest, Vol 3, Issue 9)

[Ralph Giles]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:19:50PM +0100, Ram?n Garc?a wrote:

> "Although clients SHOULD send RR acording to RFC 3550, in the case of
> Vorbis packets these records are specially useful, because the Vorbis
> codec is designed to allow to change the bitrate easily essentially by
> removing some bytes at the end of a packet (bitpeeling). Therefore,
> this SHOULD should be stronger for Vorbis packets."

I wouldn't put such an expectation on bitrate peeling. At this point, 
until someone demonstrates an encoder that produces usefully-peelable 
bitstreams I think we should keep the hype machine off on this 
particular feature.

 -r