[streaming] Re: Play Multicast Stream without send IGMP join/leave

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Pranjal Dutta (prdutta) wrote:

> Hi All,
>               I am doing some experiment on Live/Multicast streaming 
> with VLC. When VLC is started to receive a Multicast Stream lets say 
> coming at 224.10.10.1 and port 2001 , VLC immediately sends out 
> IGMPv2/v3 join message and plays the stream as well. Now I have 
> another agent in my Network that sends out IGMPv2/v3 message and I 
> just want VLC to receive and play the Multicast Stream only(The way it 
> received and play a UDP unicast stream). I don't want VLC to send 
> IGMPv2/v3 message.Is there any possible way to do it? Any pointers 
> will be of great help.
>
Yes you can if you don't use multicast ;-) ..... but it won't help you. 
Receiving multicast means that the client must join the multicast group 
and that means sending IGMPv2/v3 messages.


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Many greetings,
     Jean-Paul Saman

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