Week 9

Lecture

This week's lecture focused on RTP and RTCP. We went over how RTP actually encodes media using different codecs. We also examined different traffic captures of RTP and RTCP packets.

What I did

I spent some time looking over the RFC's that define RTP and RTCP in order to gain some familiarity with how these protocols operate. I also spent some time looking over and noticing different things defined in the RFC's that I could notice in the example captures posted on the class website. I tried to capture some live, streaming video on my own, but everything I could find was utilizing HTTP over TCP instead of RTP over UDP. It seems to me that many organizations have yet to embrace RTP.