ULP FEC, as defined in RFC 5109, has the protected and protection
packets sharing the same ssrc, and a different payload type, and
implies rewriting the seqnums of the protected stream when encoding
the protection packets. This has the unfortunate drawback of not
being able to tell whether a lost packet was a protection packet.
rtpbasedepayload relies on gaps in the seqnums to set the DISCONT
flag on buffers it outputs. Before that commit, this created two
problems:
* The protection packets don't make it as far as the depayloader,
which means it will mark buffers as DISCONT every time the previous
packets were protected
* While we could work around the previous issue by looking at
the protection packets ignored and dropped in rtpptdemux, we
would still mark buffers as DISCONT when a FEC packet was lost,
as we cannot know that it was indeed a FEC packet, even though
this should have no impact on the decoding of the stream
With this commit, we consider that when using ULPFEC, gaps in
the seqnums are not a reliable indicator of whether buffers should
be marked as DISCONT or not, and thus rewrite the seqnums on
the decoding side as well to form a perfect sequence, this
obviously doesn't prevent the jitterbuffer from doing its job
as the ulpfec decoder is downstream from it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794909
The ulpfecenc "mux-seq" and "ssrc" properties were initially added
because the element did more than implement ULPFEC. As it was
decided that FLEXFEC would be implemented in a separate element,
both properties are now unneeded and confusing.
Change the default for the ulpfecenc multi-packet property,
as it is expected that most users of this element will be protecting video
streams.
Change the default property for the rtpredenc allow-no-red-blocks
property, as it should also be its default mode of operation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793843
We expose a set of new elements:
* ULPFEC encoder / decoder
* A storage element, which should be placed before jitterbuffers,
and is used to store packets in order to attempt reconstruction
after the jitterbuffer has sent PacketLost events
* RED encoder / decoder (RFC 2198), these are necessary to
use FEC in webrtc, as browsers will propose and expect ulpfec
packets to be wrapped in red packets
With contributions from:
Mathieu Duponchelle <mathieu@centricular.com>
Sebastian Dröge <sebastian@centricular.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792696
