[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 0/3] rtp-recv: interoperability fixes

[Arun Raghavan]

On Thu, 12 May 2016, at 03:51 PM, Cédric Schieli wrote:
> 2016-05-12 9:40 GMT+02:00 Arun Raghavan <arun at arunraghavan.net>:
> 
> > I'll try to get to these patches at some point, but in the mean time,
> > I'm hoping to address the comments on the patches to use a GStreamer for
> > our RTP support and get that merged in the next cycle. That work is at:
> >
> >   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~arun/pulseaudio/log/?h=gst-rtp
> >
> 
> I was not aware of this ongoing work (I should have searched the
> archive...)
> What will be the fate of the native implementation ? Will it be
> superseded
> by the gstreamer implementation or kept around as a fallback in the case
> gstreamer is not available/wanted ?

This is not entirely clear -- I suspect that if we start adding support
for things like streaming Opus etc., supporting both will become more
pain that it's worth.

My intention is to keep both available as long as it is feasible,
though.

-- Arun