June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 39m
English
RTP Sessions
The RTP Data Transfer Packet
Packet Validation
Translators and Mixers
This chapter explains the RTP data transfer protocol, the means by which real-time media is exchanged. The discussion focuses on the “on-the-wire” aspects of RTP—that is, the packet formats and requirements for interoperability; the design of a system using RTP is explained in later chapters.
A session consists of a group of participants who are communicating using RTP. A participant may be active in multiple RTP sessions—for instance, one session for exchanging audio data and another session for exchanging video data. For each participant, the session is identified by a network address and port pair to which data should ...
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