Due to us not properly acknowleding the time when the last RTX was sent
when scheduling a new one, it can easily happen that due to the packet
you are requesting have a PTS that is slightly old (but not too old when
adding the latency of the jitterbuffer), both its calculated second and
third (etc.) timeout could already have passed. This would lead to a burst
of RTX requests, which acts completely against its purpose, potentially
spending a lot more bandwidth than needed.
This has been properly reproduced in the test:
test_rtx_not_bursting_requests
The good news is that slightly re-thinking the logic concerning
re-requesting RTX, made it a lot simpler to understand, and allows us
to remove two members of the RtpTimer which no longer serves any purpose
due to the refactoring. If desirable the whole "delay" concept can actually
be removed completely from the timers, and simply just added to the timeout
by the caller of the API. But that can be a change for a another time.
The only external change (other than the improved behavior around bursting
RTX) is that the "delay" field now stricly represents the delay between
the PTS of the RTX-requested packet and the time it is requested on,
whereas before this calculation was more about the theoretical calculated
delay. This is visible in three other RTX-tests where the delay had
to be adjusted slightly. I am confident however that this change is
correct.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/-/merge_requests/789>
