[xiph-rtp] the sequence nubmer overflow

[hy_gzr]

hello every body
I found the sequence number occupied two bytes in the rtp header
when the sequence number is 0xFFFF,the sequence number increments by one.then the sequence number overflow.
how can I understand and resolve this problem?
thank you for you help

2008-01-28



hy_gzr
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[Jean-Marc Valin]

Post by hy_gzr
hello every body
I found the sequence number occupied two bytes in the rtp header
when the sequence number is 0xFFFF,the sequence number increments by one.then the sequence number overflow.
how can I understand and resolve this problem?

What problem? Just consider the sequence number as a "ring", the value
that follows 0xffff is 0x0000, so what? It's not like there's any
confusion possible unless you're sending tens of thousands of packets
per second *and* your jitter is huge.

Jean-Marc