8.7. SDP Description with Session-Multiplexing

In the case of session-multiplexing, the SDP description contains one media specification "m" line per RTP session. The SDP MUST provide the grouping of the original and associated retransmission sessions' "m" lines, using the Flow Identification (FID) semantics defined in RFC 3388 [6].

The following example specifies two original, AMR and MPEG-4, streams on ports 49170 and 49174 and their corresponding retransmission streams on ports 49172 and 49176, respectively:

v=0
o=mascha 2980675221 2980675778 IN IP4 host.example.net
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.0
a=group:FID 1 2
a=group:FID 3 4
m=audio 49170 RTP/AVPF 96
a=rtpmap:96 AMR/8000
a=fmtp:96 octet-align=1
a=rtcp-fb:96 nack
a=mid:1
m=audio 49172 RTP/AVPF 97
a=rtpmap:97 rtx/8000
a=fmtp:97 apt=96;rtx-time=3000
a=mid:2
m=video 49174 RTP/AVPF 98
a=rtpmap:98 MP4V-ES/90000
a=rtcp-fb:98 nack
a=fmtp:98 profile-level-id=8;config=01010000012000884006682C2090A21F
a=mid:3
m=video 49176 RTP/AVPF 99
a=rtpmap:99 rtx/90000
a=fmtp:99 apt=98;rtx-time=3000
a=mid:4

A special case of the SDP description is a description that contains only one original session "m" line and one retransmission session "m" line, the grouping is then obvious and FID semantics MAY be omitted in this special case only.

This is illustrated in the following example, which is an SDP description for a single original MPEG-4 stream and its corresponding retransmission session:

v=0
o=mascha 2980675221 2980675778 IN IP4 host.example.net
c=IN IP4 192.0.2.0
m=video 49170 RTP/AVPF 96
a=rtpmap:96 MP4V-ES/90000
a=rtcp-fb:96 nack
a=fmtp:96 profile-level-id=8;config=01010000012000884006682C2090A21F
m=video 49172 RTP/AVPF 97
a=rtpmap:97 rtx/90000
a=fmtp:97 apt=96;rtx-time=3000