[Live-devel] Multicast Streaming again

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Fri Jun 27 04:20:52 PDT 2008


>ad 2) bind the socket to a multicast address?
>How does that work?
>Do you use your own library or the live library?
>Where do I have to add this code fragment to the live library? 
>(Groupsock.cpp or GroupsockHelper.cpp or ..)
>The only way for me to change the interface address, in order to 
>receive an send packets, was to change the variable 
>"SendingInterfaceAddr" and "ReceivingInterfaceAddr". Binding the 
>socket to a multicast address lead to an expected result. I didn't 
>receive any data over the socket. If I bound the socket to a 
>specific network interface I could receive data packets, but had the 
>merging problem.

That's why the best solution is Fabrice's solution number 1: Fix the 
bug in your Linux kernel.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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