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+Network Working Group T. Turletti
+Request for Comments: 2032 MIT
+Category: Standards Track C. Huitema
+ Bellcore
+ October 1996
+
+
+ RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video Streams
+
+Status of this Memo
+
+ This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
+ Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
+ improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
+ Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
+ and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
+
+Table of Contents
+
+ 1. Abstract ............................................. 1
+ 2. Purpose of this document ............................. 2
+ 3. Structure of the packet stream ....................... 2
+ 3.1 Overview of the ITU-T recommendation H.261 .......... 2
+ 3.2 Considerations for packetization .................... 3
+ 4. Specification of the packetization scheme ............ 4
+ 4.1 Usage of RTP ........................................ 4
+ 4.2 Recommendations for operation with hardware codecs .. 6
+ 5. Packet loss issues ................................... 7
+ 5.1 Use of optional H.261-specific control packets ...... 8
+ 5.2 H.261 control packets definition .................... 9
+ 5.2.1 Full INTRA-frame Request (FIR) packet ............. 9
+ 5.2.2 Negative ACKnowledgements (NACK) packet ........... 9
+ 6. Security Considerations .............................. 10
+ Authors' Addresses ..................................... 10
+ Acknowledgements ....................................... 10
+ References ............................................. 11
+
+1. Abstract
+
+ This memo describes a scheme to packetize an H.261 video stream for
+ transport using the Real-time Transport Protocol, RTP, with any of
+ the underlying protocols that carry RTP.
+
+ This specification is a product of the Audio/Video Transport working
+ group within the Internet Engineering Task Force. Comments are
+ solicited and should be addressed to the working group's mailing list
+ at rem-conf@es.net and/or the authors.
+
+
+
+
+Turletti & Huitema Standards Track [Page 1]
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+RFC 2032 RTP Payload Format for H.261 Video October 1996
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+
+2. Purpose of this document
+
+ The ITU-T recommendation H.261 [6] specifies the encodings used by
+ ITU-T compliant video-conference codecs. Although these encodings
+ were originally specified for fixed data rate ISDN circuits,
+ experiments [3],[8] have shown that they can also be used over
+ packet-switched networks such as the Internet.
+
+ The purpose of this memo is to specify the RTP payload format for
+ encapsulating H.261 video streams in RTP [1].
+
+3. Structure of the packet stream
+
+3.1. Overview of the ITU-T recommendation H.261
+
+ The H.261 coding is organized as a hierarchy of groupings. The video
+ stream is composed of a sequence of images, or frames, which are
+ themselves organized as a set of Groups of Blocks (GOB). Note that
+ H.261 "pictures" are referred as "frames" in this document. Each GOB
+ holds a set of 3 lines of 11 macro blocks (MB). Each MB carries
+ information on a group of 16x16 pixels: luminance information is
+ specified for 4 blocks of 8x8 pixels, while chrominance information
+ is given by two "red" and "blue" color difference components at a
+ resolution of only 8x8 pixels. These components and the codes
+ representing their sampled values are as defined in the ITU-R
+ Recommendation 601 [7].
+
+ This grouping is used to specify information at each level of the
+ hierarchy:
+
+ - At the frame level, one specifies information such as the
+ delay from the previous frame, the image format, and
+ various indicators.
+
+ - At the GOB level, one specifies the GOB number and the
+ default quantifier that will be used for the MBs.
+
+ - At the MB level, one specifies which blocks are present
+ and which did not change, and optionally a quantifier and
+ motion vectors.
+
+ Blocks which have changed are encoded by computing the discrete
+ cosine transform (DCT) of their coefficients, which are then
+ quantized and Huffman encoded (Variable Length Codes).
+
+ The H.261 Huffman encoding includes a special "GOB start" pattern,
+ composed of 15 zeroes followed by a single 1, that cannot be imitated
+ by any other code words. This pattern is included at the beginning of
+
+
+
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+ each GOB header (and also at the beginning of each frame header) to
+ mark the separation between two GOBs, and is in fact used as an
+ indicator that the current GOB is terminated. The encoding also
+ includes a stuffing pattern, composed of seven zeroes followed by
+ four ones; that stuffing pattern can only be entered between the
+ encoding of MBs, or just before the GOB separator.
+
+3.2. Considerations for packetization
+
+ H.261 codecs designed for operation over ISDN circuits produce a bit
+ stream composed of several levels of encoding specified by H.261 and
+ companion recommendations. The bits resulting from the Huffman
+ encoding are arranged in 512-bit frames, containing 2 bits of
+ synchronization, 492 bits of data and 18 bits of error correcting
+ code. The 512-bit frames are then interlaced with an audio stream
+ and transmitted over px64 kbps circuits according to specification
+ H.221 [5].
+
+ When transmitting over the Internet, we will directly consider the
+ output of the Huffman encoding. All the bits produced by the Huffman
+ encoding stage will be included in the packet. We will not carry the
+ 512-bit frames, as protection against bit errors can be obtained by
+ other means. Similarly, we will not attempt to multiplex audio and
+ video signals in the same packets, as UDP and RTP provide a much more
+ efficient way to achieve multiplexing.
+
+ Directly transmitting the result of the Huffman encoding over an
+ unreliable stream of UDP datagrams would, however, have poor error
+ resistance characteristics. The result of the hierachical structure
+ of H.261 bit stream is that one needs to receive the information
+ present in the frame header to decode the GOBs, as well as the
+ information present in the GOB header to decode the MBs. Without
+ precautions, this would mean that one has to receive all the packets
+ that carry an image in order to properly decode its components.
+
+ If each image could be carried in a single packet, this requirement
+ would not create a problem. However, a video image or even one GOB by
+ itself can sometimes be too large to fit in a single packet.
+ Therefore, the MB is taken as the unit of fragmentation. Packets
+ must start and end on a MB boundary, i.e. a MB cannot be split across
+ multiple packets. Multiple MBs may be carried in a single packet
+ when they will fit within the maximal packet size allowed. This
+ practice is recommended to reduce the packet send rate and packet
+ overhead.
+
+ To allow each packet to be processed independently for efficient
+ resynchronization in the presence of packet losses, some state
+ information from the frame header and GOB header is carried with each
+
+
+
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+ packet to allow the MBs in that packet to be decoded. This state
+ information includes the GOB number in effect at the start of the
+ packet, the macroblock address predictor (i.e. the last MBA encoded
+ in the previous packet), the quantizer value in effect prior to the
+ start of this packet (GQUANT, MQUANT or zero in case of a beginning
+ of GOB) and the reference motion vector data (MVD) for computing the
+ true MVDs contained within this packet. The bit stream cannot be
+ fragmented between a GOB header and MB 1 of that GOB.
+
+ Moreover, since the compressed MB may not fill an integer number of
+ octets, the data header contains two three-bit integers, SBIT and
+ EBIT, to indicate the number of unused bits in the first and last
+ octets of the H.261 data, respectively.
+
+4. Specification of the packetization scheme
+
+4.1. Usage of RTP
+
+ The H.261 information is carried as payload data within the RTP
+ protocol. The following fields of the RTP header are specified:
+
+ - The payload type should specify H.261 payload format (see
+ the companion RTP profile document RFC 1890).
+
+ - The RTP timestamp encodes the sampling instant of the
+ first video image contained in the RTP data packet. If a
+ video image occupies more than one packet, the timestamp
+ will be the same on all of those packets. Packets from
+ different video images must have different timestamps so
+ that frames may be distinguished by the timestamp. For
+ H.261 video streams, the RTP timestamp is based on a
+ 90kHz clock. This clock rate is a multiple of the natural
+ H.261 frame rate (i.e. 30000/1001 or approx. 29.97 Hz).
+ That way, for each frame time, the clock is just
+ incremented by the multiple and this removes inaccuracy
+ in calculating the timestamp. Furthermore, the initial
+ value of the timestamp is random (unpredictable) to make
+ known-plaintext attacks on encryption more difficult, see
+ RTP [1]. Note that if multiple frames are encoded in a
+ packet (e.g. when there are very little changes between
+ two images), it is necessary to calculate display times
+ for the frames after the first using the timing
+ information in the H.261 frame header. This is required
+ because the RTP timestamp only gives the display time of
+ the first frame in the packet.
+
+ - The marker bit of the RTP header is set to one in the
+ last packet of a video frame, and otherwise, must be
+
+
+
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+ zero. Thus, it is not necessary to wait for a following
+ packet (which contains the start code that terminates the
+ current frame) to detect that a new frame should be
+ displayed.
+
+ The H.261 data will follow the RTP header, as in:
+
+ 0 1 2 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ . .
+ . RTP header .
+ . .
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | H.261 header |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | H.261 stream ... .
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+ The H.261 header is defined as following:
+
+ 0 1 2 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ |SBIT |EBIT |I|V| GOBN | MBAP | QUANT | HMVD | VMVD |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+ The fields in the H.261 header have the following meanings:
+
+ Start bit position (SBIT): 3 bits
+ Number of most significant bits that should be ignored
+ in the first data octet.
+
+ End bit position (EBIT): 3 bits
+ Number of least significant bits that should be ignored
+ in the last data octet.
+
+ INTRA-frame encoded data (I): 1 bit
+ Set to 1 if this stream contains only INTRA-frame coded
+ blocks. Set to 0 if this stream may or may not contain
+ INTRA-frame coded blocks. The sense of this bit may not
+ change during the course of the RTP session.
+
+ Motion Vector flag (V): 1 bit
+ Set to 0 if motion vectors are not used in this stream.
+ Set to 1 if motion vectors may or may not be used in
+ this stream. The sense of this bit may not change during
+ the course of the session.
+
+
+
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+ GOB number (GOBN): 4 bits
+ Encodes the GOB number in effect at the start of the
+ packet. Set to 0 if the packet begins with a GOB header.
+
+ Macroblock address predictor (MBAP): 5 bits
+ Encodes the macroblock address predictor (i.e. the last
+ MBA encoded in the previous packet). This predictor ranges
+ from 0-32 (to predict the valid MBAs 1-33), but because
+ the bit stream cannot be fragmented between a GOB header
+ and MB 1, the predictor at the start of the packet can
+ never be 0. Therefore, the range is 1-32, which is biased
+ by -1 to fit in 5 bits. For example, if MBAP is 0, the
+ value of the MBA predictor is 1. Set to 0 if the packet
+ begins with a GOB header.
+
+ Quantizer (QUANT): 5 bits
+ Quantizer value (MQUANT or GQUANT) in effect prior to the
+ start of this packet. Set to 0 if the packet begins with
+ a GOB header.
+
+ Horizontal motion vector data (HMVD): 5 bits
+ Reference horizontal motion vector data (MVD). Set to 0
+ if V flag is 0 or if the packet begins with a GOB header,
+ or when the MTYPE of the last MB encoded in the previous
+ packet was not MC. HMVD is encoded as a 2's complement
+ number, and `10000' corresponding to the value -16 is
+ forbidden (motion vector fields range from +/-15).
+
+ Vertical motion vector data (VMVD): 5 bits
+ Reference vertical motion vector data (MVD). Set to 0 if
+ V flag is 0 or if the packet begins with a GOB header, or
+ when the MTYPE of the last MB encoded in the previous
+ packet was not MC. VMVD is encoded as a 2's complement
+ number, and `10000' corresponding to the value -16 is
+ forbidden (motion vector fields range from +/-15).
+
+ Note that the I and V flags are hint flags, i.e. they can be inferred
+ from the bit stream. They are included to allow decoders to make
+ optimizations that would not be possible if these hints were not
+ provided before bit stream was decoded. Therefore, these bits cannot
+ change for the duration of the stream. A conformant implementation
+ can always set V=1 and I=0.
+
+4.2. Recommendations for operation with hardware codecs
+
+ Packetizers for hardware codecs can trivially figure out GOB
+ boundaries using the GOB-start pattern included in the H.261 data.
+ (Note that software encoders already know the boundaries.) The
+
+
+
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+ cheapest packetization implementation is to packetize at the GOB
+ level all the GOBs that fit in a packet. But when a GOB is too
+ large, the packetizer has to parse it to do MB fragmentation. (Note
+ that only the Huffman encoding must be parsed and that it is not
+ necessary to fully decompress the stream, so this requires relatively
+ little processing; example implementations can be found in some
+ public H.261 codecs such as IVS [4] and VIC [9].) It is recommended
+ that MB level fragmentation be used when feasible in order to obtain
+ more efficient packetization. Using this fragmentation scheme reduces
+ the output packet rate and therefore reduces the overhead.
+
+ At the receiver, the data stream can be depacketized and directed to
+ a hardware codec's input. If the hardware decoder operates at a
+ fixed bit rate, synchronization may be maintained by inserting the
+ stuffing pattern between MBs (i.e., between packets) when the packet
+ arrival rate is slower than the bit rate.
+
+5. Packet loss issues
+
+ On the Internet, most packet losses are due to network congestion
+ rather than transmission errors. Using UDP, no mechanism is available
+ at the sender to know if a packet has been successfully received. It
+ is up to the application, i.e. coder and decoder, to handle the
+ packet loss. Each RTP packet includes a a sequence number field which
+ can be used to detect packet loss.
+
+ H.261 uses the temporal redundancy of video to perform compression.
+ This differential coding (or INTER-frame coding) is sensitive to
+ packet loss. After a packet loss, parts of the image may remain
+ corrupt until all corresponding MBs have been encoded in INTRA-frame
+ mode (i.e. encoded independently of past frames). There are several
+ ways to mitigate packet loss:
+
+ (1) One way is to use only INTRA-frame encoding and MB level
+ conditional replenishment. That is, only MBs that change
+ (beyond some threshold) are transmitted.
+
+ (2) Another way is to adjust the INTRA-frame encoding
+ refreshment rate according to the packet loss observed by
+ the receivers. The H.261 recommendation specifies that a
+ MB is INTRA-frame encoded at least every 132 times it is
+ transmitted. However, the INTRA-frame refreshment rate
+ can be raised in order to speed the recovery when the
+ measured loss rate is significant.
+
+ (3) The fastest way to repair a corrupted image is to request
+ an INTRA-frame coded image refreshment after a packet
+ loss is detected. One means to accomplish this is for the
+
+
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+ decoder to send to the coder a list of packets lost. The
+ coder can decide to encode every MB of every GOB of the
+ following video frame in INTRA-frame mode (i.e. Full
+ INTRA-frame encoded), or if the coder can deduce from the
+ packet sequence numbers which MBs were affected by the
+ loss, it can save bandwidth by sending only those MBs in
+ INTRA-frame mode. This mode is particularly efficient in
+ point-to-point connection or when the number of decoders
+ is low. The next section specifies how the refresh
+ function may be implemented.
+
+ Note that the method (1) is currently implemented in the VIC
+ videoconferencing software [9]. Methods (2) and (3) are currently
+ implemented in the IVS videoconferencing software [4].
+
+5.1. Use of optional H.261-specific control packets
+
+ This specification defines two H.261-specific RTCP control packets,
+ "Full INTRA-frame Request" and "Negative Acknowledgement", described
+ in the next section. Their purpose is to speed up refreshment of the
+ video in those situations where their use is feasible. Support of
+ these H.261-specific control packets by the H.261 sender is optional;
+ in particular, early experiments have shown that the usage of this
+ feature could have very negative effects when the number of sites is
+ very large. Thus, these control packets should be used with caution.
+
+ The H.261-specific control packets differ from normal RTCP packets in
+ that they are not transmitted to the normal RTCP destination
+ transport address for the RTP session (which is often a multicast
+ address). Instead, these control packets are sent directly via
+ unicast from the decoder to the coder. The destination port for
+ these control packets is the same port that the coder uses as a
+ source port for transmitting RTP (data) packets. Therefore, these
+ packets may be considered "reverse" control packets.
+
+ As a consequence, these control packets may only be used when no RTP
+ mixers or translators intervene in the path from the coder to the
+ decoder. If such intermediate systems do intervene, the address of
+ the coder would no longer be present as the network-level source
+ address in packets received by the decoder, and in fact, it might not
+ be possible for the decoder to send packets directly to the coder.
+
+ Some reliable multicast protocols use similar NACK control packets
+ transmitted over the normal multicast distribution channel, but they
+ typically use random delays to prevent a NACK implosion problem [2].
+ The goal of such protocols is to provide reliable multicast packet
+ delivery at the expense of delay, which is appropriate for
+ applications such as a shared whiteboard.
+
+
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+ On the other hand, interactive video transmission is more sensitive
+ to delay and does not require full reliability. For video
+ applications it is more effective to send the NACK control packets as
+ soon as possible, i.e. as soon as a loss is detected, without adding
+ any random delays. In this case, multicasting the NACK control
+ packets would generate useless traffic between receivers since only
+ the coder will use them. But this method is only effective when the
+ number of receivers is small. e.g. in IVS [4] the H.261 specific
+ control packets are used only in point-to-point connections or in
+ point-to-multipoint connections when there are less than 10
+ participants in the conference.
+
+5.2. H.261 control packets definition
+
+5.2.1. Full INTRA-frame Request (FIR) packet
+
+ 0 1 2 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ |V=2|P| MBZ | PT=RTCP_FIR | length |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | SSRC |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+ This packet indicates that a receiver requires a full encoded image
+ in order to either start decoding with an entire image or to refresh
+ its image and speed the recovery after a burst of lost packets. The
+ receiver requests the source to force the next image in full "INTRA-
+ frame" coding mode, i.e. without using differential coding. The
+ various fields are defined in the RTP specification [1]. SSRC is the
+ synchronization source identifier for the sender of this packet. The
+ value of the packet type (PT) identifier is the constant RTCP_FIR
+ (192).
+
+5.2.2. Negative ACKnowledgements (NACK) packet
+
+ The format of the NACK packet is as follow:
+
+ 0 1 2 3
+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ |V=2|P| MBZ | PT=RTCP_NACK | length |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | SSRC |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+ | FSN | BLP |
+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
+
+
+
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+ The various fields T, P, PT, length and SSRC are defined in the RTP
+ specification [1]. The value of the packet type (PT) identifier is
+ the constant RTCP_NACK (193). SSRC is the synchronization source
+ identifier for the sender of this packet.
+
+ The two remaining fields have the following meanings:
+
+ First Sequence Number (FSN): 16 bits
+ Identifies the first sequence number lost.
+
+ Bitmask of following lost packets (BLP): 16 bits
+ A bit is set to 1 if the corresponding packet has been lost,
+ and set to 0 otherwise. BLP is set to 0 only if no packet
+ other than that being NACKed (using the FSN field) has been
+ lost. BLP is set to 0x00001 if the packet corresponding to
+ the FSN and the following packet have been lost, etc.
+
+6. Security Considerations
+
+ Security issues are not discussed in this memo.
+
+Authors' Addresses
+
+ Thierry Turletti
+ INRIA - RODEO Project
+ 2004 route des Lucioles
+ BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis
+ FRANCE
+
+ EMail: turletti@sophia.inria.fr
+
+
+ Christian Huitema
+ MCC 1J236B Bellcore
+ 445 South Street
+ Morristown, NJ 07960-6438
+
+ EMail: huitema@bellcore.com
+
+Acknowledgements
+
+ This memo is based on discussion within the AVT working group chaired
+ by Stephen Casner. Steve McCanne, Stephen Casner, Ronan Flood, Mark
+ Handley, Van Jacobson, Henning G. Schulzrinne and John Wroclawski
+ provided valuable comments. Stephen Casner and Steve McCanne also
+ helped greatly with getting this document into readable form.
+
+
+
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+References
+
+ [1] Schulzrinne, H., Casner, S., Frederick, R., and
+ V. Jacobson, "RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time
+ Applications", RFC 1889, January 1996.
+
+ [2] Sridhar Pingali, Don Towsley and James F. Kurose, A
+ comparison of sender-initiated and receiver-initiated
+ reliable multicast protocols, IEEE GLOBECOM '94.
+
+ [3] Thierry Turletti, H.261 software codec for
+ videoconferencing over the Internet INRIA Research Report
+ no 1834, January 1993.
+
+ [4] Thierry Turletti, INRIA Videoconferencing tool (IVS),
+ available by anonymous ftp from zenon.inria.fr in the
+ "rodeo/ivs/last_version" directory. See also URL
+ <http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/ivs.html>.
+
+ [5] Frame structure for Audiovisual Services for a 64 to 1920
+ kbps Channel in Audiovisual Services ITU-T (International
+ Telecommunication Union - Telecommunication
+ Standardisation Sector) Recommendation H.221, 1990.
+
+ [6] Video codec for audiovisual services at p x 64 kbit/s
+ ITU-T (International Telecommunication Union -
+ Telecommunication Standardisation Sector) Recommendation
+ H.261, 1993.
+
+ [7] Digital Methods of Transmitting Television Information
+ ITU-R (International Telecommunication Union -
+ Radiocommunication Standardisation Sector) Recommendation
+ 601, 1986.
+
+ [8] M.A Sasse, U. Bilting, C-D Schulz, T. Turletti, Remote
+ Seminars through MultiMedia Conferencing: Experiences
+ from the MICE project, Proc. INET'94/JENC5, Prague, June
+ 1994, pp. 251/1-251/8.
+
+ [9] Steve MacCanne, Van Jacobson, VIC Videoconferencing tool,
+ available by anonymous ftp from ee.lbl.gov in the
+ "conferencing/vic" directory.
+
+
+
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