[Live-devel] get the rtp discontinuity info

[Dong Liu]

Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> I'm writing a Microsoft directshow source filter based on live media's 
>> rtp. I'm interested to get the discontinuity, such as packet lost, 
>> packet out of order etc from the rtp layer.
> 
> No, you don't need this information.  Our RTP reception implementation 
> takes care of this automatically, so that your receiver is presented 
> with whole, properly-ordered frames.
> 
> If, however, you really want to look at the QOS (including packet loss) 
> statistics that the RTP/RTCP reception implementation collects, then you 
> can do this by looking at the "RTPReceptionStats".  See, for example, 
> how the "openRTSP" demo application implements its "-Q" option.

But, in  Microsoft Directshow, when you provide a sample to downstream 
filter, you can indicate that if there is a discontinuity in the stream. I 
think this info is useful to other receivers too.

Thanks,

Dong