[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make rtpenc.c SSRC randomly set

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Wed Jul 9 08:27:13 CEST 2008


On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:14:09AM +0200, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> 
> Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > RFC 3550 (RTP) states:
> > | SSRC: 32 bits
> > |      The SSRC field identifies the synchronization source.  This
> > |      identifier SHOULD be chosen randomly, with the intent that no two
> > |      synchronization sources within the same RTP session will have the
> > |      same SSRC identifier.
> > 
> > Currently rtpenc.c uses always a value of 0.
> 
> Note that random() used to be used here, but has been removed:
> http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk/libavformat/rtpenc.c?r1=5090&r2=5249
> 
> I am not sure what the correct solution would be (and I have to admit that
> I am not a fan of the "random() vs no random()" discussions... I just tend
> to trust other people about this kind of issues), but if someone finds a
> solution on which everyone agree I'll be happy to ack it.
> (In any case, AFAIK this is not causing any real issue... So, even if we
> are not fully compliant with the RFC there are no practical problems.)

the crc of the first frame or extradata or ... will do very well as random
number if one thinks theres any sense in this ...
also reading from /dev/(u)random is an option [it wont work on all OSs but
a failure wont be worse than always using 0]

* random() cannot be called in a lib for various reasons
* av_random(X) is no better than X, i really dislike the kind of
  thinking that a bad choice of X would somehow be less bad once its
  pulled through a function the author doesnt underdstand.
* X (or av_random(X)) leaks X to the outside, we do not want PIDs or
  some pointer values to leak ...


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