[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] rtpdec: Emit timestamps for packets before the first RTCP packet, too

[Josh Allmann]

On 27 December 2010 17:39, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 12/28/2010 01:55 AM, Josh Allmann wrote:
>> Just a small comment: RTP timestamps do not necessarily start from
>> zero (RFC 3550, section 5.1: "The initial value of the timestamp
>> SHOULD be random") and the RTCP wallclock is used for syncing between
>> streams that otherwise have different starting timestamps.
>
> "0 is a perfectly random number" when random doesn't come with pretence
> of security of any kind.
>

http://xkcd.com/221/

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