[pulseaudio-discuss] Why not RTP instead of TCP

[brian mullan]

New to this mailer so ignore if this has been beat like an old rug
already...

I have been experimenting with xrdp/x11rdp and freerdp in particular how to
get audio from an rdp remote desktop when that desktop is linux.

Looking at pulseaudio docs it appears it uses only TCP.

Was there ever any thought to implementing RTP (using UDP) instead?

Audio is more often one-way and dropping a few UDP audio packets every so
often would probably not be heard/recognized by average human listener.

But TCP requiring retransmissions of all dropped packets can introduce
delays that to me, is often much more noticable.

RTP ...

   - is designed for end-to-end, real-time, transfer of stream data with
   jitter comp.
   - allows data transfer to multiple destinations through IP multicast.
   - is regarded as the primary standard for audio/video transport in IP
   networks
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