[Live-devel] RTSP MediaSession.cpp patch for RTP/RTCP for multicast

[Robert Krakora]

Ross:

I duplicated the problem first with v2009.07.27 and then with v2010.01.13.
I am sorry if I was a bit misleading.  I will test you fix out tonight.
Thanks for your quick response.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>wrote:

> I am using VLC 0.9.10 with live555 snapshot live.2010.01.13.tar.gz
>>
>
> Are you sure?  VLC disagrees:
>
> User-Agent: VLC media player (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2009.07.27)
>>
>
> Nonetheless, the problem you describe applies even to newer versions:
>
> BasicTaskScheduler::SingleStep(): select() fails: Bad file descriptor
>> [00000703] main decoder debug: thread started
>>
>> By turning on debugging I was able to ascertain that the problem was that
>> the fd_set socket handle mask for the 'select()' call was not getting
>> updated when RTP and RTCP sockets were closed and reopened with different
>> file descriptor values because of a multicast address/port changed flagged
>> by the RTSP stack.
>>
>
> Yes, you're right - you identified a bug.  (This arose because your server
> is doing something rather unusual (but still legal): define the destination
> multicast address in the RTSP "SETUP" response.)
>
> The problem was our implementation of the "changePort()" function.  I have
> now changed this so that it calls "bind()" directly, rather than indirectly
> via closing and reopening sockets.
>
> I have installed a new version (2010.01.15) of the code that - I hope fixes
> this problem.
> --
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
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