Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] RTP Analysis

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From: "Anders Broman" <a.broman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 13:04:32 +0100
Hi,
How is the stream set up (SIP/RTSP/H323...)?
Can you retry on Ethereal 0.10.14 some improvements has been made there if
The payload type for dynamic payloads can be determined( which it can if SDP
is used I think, at least for SIP). BTW which payload type is it?
Brg
Anders

>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to do RTP Analysis with Ethereal 0.10.10  for a captured video
stream session. I'm getting too high numbers in the jitter calculations. For
>example, I'm getting mean jitter values of 1771310.65 ms (which of course
can not be true).
>
>The following are some lines out of the analysis screen (some columns
removed):
>
>Packet	Sequence	Delta (ms)	Jitter (ms)	
>27		0		0		0		
>29		1		230		14.38		
>32		2		80		562508.48	
>34		3		20		1089850.45	
>35		4		0		1584234.79	
>37		5		130		2047711.99	
>38		6		50		2482226.87	
>40		7		20		2889586.44	
>42		8		81		3271482.23	
>43		9		130		3629506.46	
>
>Even if the jitter calculation mistakenly assumes a clock rate of 1Hz (as
suggested by comment below from this forum), the conversion from ticks to
>seconds still results in too high jitter value (e.g., 1771310.65/90000 = 19
secs, assuming video clock rate is 90KHz).
>
>Note that even the Receiver Reports (RR) have very high jitter values. One
sample RR gives interarrival jitter = 11333786 in ticks. When converted to
>seconds assuming 90KHz it gives 11333786/90000 = 125.xx secs.
>
>
>Could somebody please offer an explanation for this?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
<Cesar