[Live-devel] multicast streams using same port

[Warren Young]

On 6/27/2012 12:41 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> ....if the receiving program bind()s to INADDR_ANY.  So isn't the fix
>> simple?  bind() each socket to the multicast address of interest.
>
> We've been through this many times before (note the links in my previous
> message).  This suggested 'fix' does not work - at least not reliably on
> all platforms.  We've tried it.

Yes, I read all that, and the sense I got from it is, Linux works one 
way, everything else works another way.  Thus my suggestion for a 
Linux-specific ifdef wrapping the bind() call.