Huge thanks to our Platinum Members Endace and LiveAction,
and our Silver Member Veeam, for supporting the Wireshark Foundation and project.

Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Enhancement-Request: RTP-MIDI dissector

From: Dirk Jagdmann <doj@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:21:15 -0800
> MIDI has something that is called "running-status" where some commands
> are abbreviated by ommiting the first octet if that is the same in
> the consecutive commands.
> 
> I really don't know how I could do the MIDI-dissection without knowing
> where the actual Status-Byte comes from (in RTP-MIDI each packet still
> contains a "phantom" running-status at the beginning of the command
> section).  This might not be the case for all ip-based MIDI-protocols...

I didn't know about the phantom status, but of course it makes sense for a "non
serial cable distribution". I guess your approach is fine then. Does it work
with your earlier applemidi dissector?


-- 
---> Dirk Jagdmann
----> http://cubic.org/~doj
-----> http://llg.cubic.org