[RTW] List is now open

Richard L. Barnes rbarnes at bbn.com
Mon Oct 11 20:29:05 CEST 2010


> You do raise the good question as to whether or not peer-to-peer  
> application-level multicast overlays are in scope or not.

I would consider it a victory if we could get unicast working.   
Multicast seems like a second priority, at best.

--Richard




> Matthew Kaufman
>
>
> From: "Silvia Pfeiffer" <silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com>
> To: "Justin Uberti" <juberti at google.com>
> Cc: "Stefan Håkansson LK" <stefan.lk.hakansson at ericsson.com>, rtc-web at alvestrand.no 
> , "David Singer" <singer at apple.com>, "Harald Alvestrand" <harald at alvestrand.no 
> >
> Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 5:44:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [RTW] List is now open
>
> It seems to me that works nicely for 1-to-1 RTC. It wouldn't even  
> require introduction of RTP/RTSP but can simply be pushing encoded a/ 
> v packets over the network as fast as possible on the given URL,  
> which would then be a UDP URL?
>
> I guess for multi-peer RTC a different approach on the network would  
> be required or would it be a full mesh?
>
> Silvia.
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Justin Uberti <juberti at google.com>  
> wrote:
> My idea is that we will tie these various pieces together like a  
> filter chain, i.e.
>
> <device> -> [encoder] -> [transport] -> [decoder] -> <video>
>
> where the connections between pieces are made by passing URLs  
> around. (i.e. opening a device yields a URL for a stream, which is  
> supplied to the encoder; at the other end, streams coming from the  
> decoder are identified by a URL, which can then be passed directly  
> to a <video> tag or WebGL texture.)
>
> Other combinations are of course possible, such as direct access to  
> [transport], in the case of a web real-time game, or combining  
> <device> -> encoder -> websocket, for doing live (non-realtime)  
> broadcasts.
>
> We're still figuring out the right interfaces for encoder/decoder;  
> for transport, hopefully the draft I proposed can serve as a  
> reasonable starting point.
>
> --justin
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson at ericsson.com 
> > wrote:
> That's right, a lot of things remain regarding protocols and other  
> stuff. But IMHO <device>, StreamAPIs and <audio> and <video> should  
> be part of the puzzle!
>
> --Stefan
>
> From: Silvia Pfeiffer [mailto:silviapfeiffer1 at gmail.com]
> Sent: den 11 oktober 2010 01:23
> To: Stefan Håkansson LK
> Cc: Harald Alvestrand; rtc-web at alvestrand.no; David Singer
>
> Subject: Re: [RTW] List is now open
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> I have seen those, thanks. That's actually the reason why I asked:  
> because I have already seen it work with the <device> element and I  
> wondered what the remaining challenges were. It seems there is lots  
> of discussion about protocols and codecs.
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK <stefan.lk.hakansson at ericsson.com 
> > wrote:
> Silvia,
>
> you might be interested in some experimenting we've done with media  
> streams and <device>: https://labs.ericsson.com/developer-community/blog/beyond-html5-conversational-voice-and-video-implemented-webkit-gtk 
>  (you can track back to earlier posts).
>
> BR,
> Stefan
>
> From: rtc-web-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:rtc-web-bounces at alvestrand.no 
> ] On Behalf Of Harald Alvestrand
> Sent: den 9 oktober 2010 10:12
> To: Silvia Pfeiffer
> Cc: rtc-web at alvestrand.no; David Singer
> Subject: Re: [RTW] List is now open
>
> On 10/09/10 03:17, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> Thanks for the general invite!
>
> I wonder: has the HTML5 device element been looked at (http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-device/ 
> ) and what are the problems with that solution?
> We're the ones who have to look - and some on the list have been  
> closely involved with writing the <device> spec. It would be  
> surprising to me if they are not part of the solution - but just part.
>
> As far as I know, it's still not clear how to tie a <device> to a  
> media stream - given that media streams aren't defined yet, this is  
> not very surprising :-)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Silvia.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:28 PM, David Singer <singer at apple.com> wrote:
> Cool, thanks Harald
>
> as I said during the day, I'd like to separate (as much as possible)  
> "why is real-time communications on the internet hard?" (which is  
> true, but a subject the IETF, the ITU, and others are also grappling  
> with) from "what is interesting/challenging about real-time  
> communications *in the web*?" -- which I take to mean in pages shown  
> by a browser.
>
>
> On Oct 8, 2010, at 4:24 , Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>
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