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From: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] STF RaptorQ
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 11:45:14 +0200
Message-ID: <20250523094514.GW29660@pb2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHGibzGhTePabJygyVHmHwMSwKzVoEg5QrizDwye1q21BJBRtA@mail.gmail.com>


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Hi

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 07:55:40PM -0400, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
> <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org> wrote:
> > I wanted to put on the record that adding RaptorQ to FFmpeg isn't
> > maintenance of FFmpeg.

i agree adding RaptorQ itself is probably not maintenance


> >
> > It's adding an obscure FEC protocol to FFmpeg,

tornado and raptor codes are not obscure.
and FFmpeg supports hundreads of much more obscure things


[...]

> I'm not sure I've seen any commercial gear that does RaptorQ for FEC,
> so it's not clear what the use cases are if the goal is
> interoperability.

its IMHO for communication between tools that on both sides
use our software

If no commercial gear uses a reliable FEC system all teh better
for us


> If somebody really wants to be paid to work on
> reliable transport protocols, the time would be better spent improving
> the RIST or SRT integration, which is where most of the industry is
> putting their energy.

FEC is supperior to ARQ
for ARQ, each receiver needs to request the lost packet
while for FEC the sender just needs to know or guess how many packets
where lost.
1. FEC is lower latency
2. FEC does not suffer from "oops the retrasmit was lost too"
3. if you have 3 receivers one lost packet 5 one packet 8 and one packet 0
   with ARQ you need to send 3 individual packets with FEC you CAN broadcast
   the same 1 packet to all 3 receivers to recover them.

Also FEC is VERY widely used, just not where you are looking.
from compact disks, to phone networks to inter planetary communication
since over 50 years its the standard, voyager in 1970 used FEC already.


> 
> I agree with Kieran that this seems to largely be outside the STF
> objectives (i.e. sustainability for open source projects).

A new implementation of RIST, SRT, Raptor and so on may fall outside
but redesigning the protocol layer in FFmpeg would perfectly fit inside
"sustainability for open source projects"
When you want A and B and both are connected, you ask for the funding
to be for the side that fits inside the guidelines
So this STF project could be changed to center on maintaince of the
protocol layer instead of a RaptorQ/SRT/RIST implementation i think.

thx

[...]
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-05-23  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-22 23:42 Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-22 23:55 ` Devin Heitmueller
2025-05-23  3:48   ` Lynne
2025-05-23 14:37     ` Devin Heitmueller
2025-05-23  9:45   ` Michael Niedermayer [this message]
2025-05-23  9:58     ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-05-23 11:25       ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23 14:57       ` Devin Heitmueller
2025-05-23 15:59         ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-05-23 11:32     ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23 16:24       ` Tristan Matthews via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23 14:50     ` Devin Heitmueller
2025-05-23 15:00       ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23 15:45         ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23 20:35           ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-05-23 21:45             ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23 16:04       ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-05-23  3:44 ` Lynne
2025-05-23  6:50   ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23  9:53     ` Lynne
2025-05-23  7:51   ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23 11:33     ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-05-23 12:13       ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-05-23 14:43         ` Michael Niedermayer
2025-05-24 16:39         ` [FFmpeg-devel] Previous trac server hosting Was: " Michael Niedermayer
2025-05-24 17:48           ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
2025-06-02  4:29             ` Baptiste Coudurier
2025-05-23 14:58       ` [FFmpeg-devel] " Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel

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