[Live-devel] RTP Extension

[Ross Finlayson]

>What's wrong with putting your meta-data in another stream that is 
>time synchronized with the H264 stream. I believe that is the 
>intended way to do such a thing in RTP.

It depends.  Is the meta-data really specific to individual video 
frames?  If so, then it's better to include it in the video data 
(rather than using RTP), if the video codec allows it.

If, however, the meta-data is intended to be time-synchronized with 
the video data, but not tied to individual video frames (e.g., it's 
something like subtitles), then it would make sense to use a separate 
RTP stream.  However, there might not be a RTP standard payload 
format for such data, so you would need to define one yourself (and 
implement it for our software).
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/