RTP Payload Format for Scalable Video Coding
Stephan Wenger, Y.-K. Wang, Thomas Schierl, Alexandros Eleftheriadis · 2011
This memo describes an RTP payload format for Scalable Video Coding (SVC) as defined in_Annex G of ITU-T Recommendation H.264, which is technically identical to Amendment 3 of ISO/IEC International Standard 14496-10. The RTP payload format allows for packetization of one or more Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) units in each RTP packet payload, as well as fragmentation of a NAL unit in multiple RTP packets. Furthermore, it supports transmission of an SVC stream over a single as well as multiple RTP sessions. For single-session streams the packetization modes of RFC 3984 are used, whereas for multi-session streams four different packetization modes are defined in this memo. The multi-session packetization modes extend the packetization modes defined in RFC 3984. The payload format is backwards compatible to RFC 3984, and has wide applicability in videoconferencing, Internet video streaming, and high bit-rate entertainment-quality video, among others.