RTX stands for retransmission.

In the context of WebRTC, this refers to IETF RFC 4588 that defines a special RTP payload that is used to retransmit packets that were previously sent.

While retransmission is usually useless in RTC, there are times where it can make sense – especially if a previous frame needs to be used for the decoding of fresh frames.

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