[xiph-rtp] the sequence nubmer overflow

Jean-Marc Valin jean-marc.valin at usherbrooke.ca
Mon Jan 28 02:35:38 PST 2008


hy_gzr a écrit :
> hello every body
> I found the sequence number occupied two bytes in the rtp header
> when the sequence number is 0xFFFF,the sequence number increments by one.then the sequence number overflow.
> how can I understand and resolve this problem?

What problem? Just consider the sequence number as a "ring", the value
that follows 0xffff is 0x0000, so what? It's not like there's any
confusion possible unless you're sending tens of thousands of packets
per second *and* your jitter is huge.

	Jean-Marc



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