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Remove or disable media stream by attribute

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
perl

Research direction

rtpengine is a Perl media proxy that parses and rewrites SDP. Start by finding where SDP media sections (m= lines) and their attributes (a= lines) are parsed and where streams can be removed or set to port 0, likely in the SDP handling modules. Run the existing SDP-related tests to see how offers are processed. Done means an offer with a=content:slides has that m= line removed or port 0 while other m=video streams remain unchanged.

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

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Describe the solution you'd like

With offer flags, rtpengine can remove media streams of a type or remove attributes from a stream. What I would like to be able to do is remove or disable (port 0) a stream if an attribute is present in that stream. For example if an offer has an a=content:slides attribute I do not want to offer it to my media server pool, so I want to disable that particular media stream (while leaving other m=video streams alone).

Describe alternatives you've considered

Considered rewriting the offer in kamailio before giving to rtpengine however this is misaligned as I am using rtpengine for all other SDP operations.

The rtpengine version you checked that didn't have the feature you are asking for

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