Media and FEC packets are transmitted on separate IP streams with the Column
FEC stream offset from media stream and have a UDP port number which is the
media port number +2. The Row FEC stream is offset from Media stream and has
UDP port number which is the media port number +4. This arrangement means that
non-enabled FEC receivers can simply ignore FEC streams and decode the media
packets.
The FEC data stream is off-set from the media stream to protect against burst error
loss and jitter. At the receiver, lost packets recovered using the FEC data packets.
The Column FEC protects against burst errors and the Row FEC protects against
random errors. ProMPEG FEC recovers lost packets using column and (optionally)
row FEC packets using the XOR function on the remaining packets. Depending on
the distribution and severity of the pack loss not all errors are recoverable.
Overhead
The overhead which results from ProMPEG FEC transmitting extra packets depends
on whether column or column and row FEC is selected and how many columns and
rows there are. (Note that L = number of columns, D = number of rows.)
Table 5.63 Column FEC
Overhead (L + (D x L)) / (D x L) = 1 / D + 1
Worst case 4 rows = 25%
Best case 20 rows = 5%
Table 5.64 Column and Row FEC
Overhead (L + (D x L)) / (D x L) = 1 / D + 1
Worst case 4 rows = 25%
Best case 20 rows = 5%
Block Alignment
FEC offers two methods of block alignment (also referred to as FEC linearisation)
for use when generating FEC packets: Non Block Aligned and Block Aligned. Both
are guaranteed of being able to correct L errors, sometimes more. The Block
Aligned method can however correct 2L+2 errors; this never happens with Non-
Block Aligned.
Non-Block Aligned can in theory have a lower latency at the decoder if it can be
guaranteed that the mode of operation will never change.
Block Aligned linearization is dealt with in Annex B of the ProMPEG Code of
Practice. In Block Aligned column FEC packets are sent every D’th frame and the L
Column FEC packets are played out every D slot. They are therefore evenly spread
over the D*L matrix period.
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