[Live-devel] UDP checksums validated in liveMedia ?

Glen Gray glen at lincor.com
Mon Nov 7 10:56:16 PST 2005


Ross Finlayson wrote:

> UDP checksumming is usually done in the OS's IP implementation - not 
> in higher-level code like ours.
>
Yeah, it didn't make sense that live would do something like that, but I 
was grasping at straws 'til the cut'n'paste error was spotted. Happy to 
say that the kernel patch now works and encrypted mpeg UDP streams are 
decrypted at the OS level before being passed on to liveMedia/VLC.

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