Tags Tag archive: 'Logging'

March 15, 2017

Debugging encrypted RTP is more fun than it used to be

Contributed by Nils Ohlmeier, Hacking on real time communications since 2002

If you ever were in the situation to try to find out why the video quality of your WebRTC call was not good, you probably have also sworn at the encrypted RTP and RTCP. Instead of trying to put log statements into your locally compiled Firefox version, you can now simply request logging of the RTP and RTCP packets.

Bug 1343640 adds support in Firefox version 55 to log the RTP header plus the first five bytes of the payload unencrypted. RTCP will be logged in full and unencrypted. (more…)