[Live-devel] Why does groupsock bind to 0.0.0.0 for streamers?

[Warren Young]

On 6/4/2013 19:08, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> Ultimately, I don't see why it needs to call bind() at all in this
>> program since a UDP sender is just tossing packets out onto the
>> network.  It's not receiving anything.
>
> Yes it is.  It's also receiving RTCP "RR" reports from receiving clients.

Okay, but does it really need to bind to 0.0.0.0 instead of to 
239.255.42.42?

Also, the bind() still occurs if you change the example to send using 
raw UDP.