[streaming] Re: Video LAN Streaming

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Thu, May 26, 2005, balawieh at site.uottawa.ca wrote :
> Hello
> 
> I am trying to steam a video Film using Video Lan Server
> 
> I have a Passport 8600 on one site and another 8600 on the other site. I
> have configured Passport 8600 to be PIM-SMM enabled. I have added a static
> Channel that is the source
> (172.25.10.1 to the group 232.0.1.0)
> 
> The Source runs video LAn streamer( configured to UDP multicast to
> 232.0.1.0) and is connected directly to one of the interfaces to of the
> first 8600.
> 
> On the other site,  the other 8600 is connected to a Baystack with all
> ports IGMP version 2 enabled.
> All the video clients are to run from the networks multicast 232.0.1.0.

What does PIM-SMM stand for. Is it a typo ?

AFAIK, you need IGMP v3 to be able to use PIM-SSM, IGMP v2 should be
good for PIM-SM

> 
> With other Multicast Application things work Fine , but with video LAN
> 
>  the setup doesnot work , is it a problem with Video Lan (not supported to
> work with IP multicasting routing protocols)
> 

Make sure you set an appropriate TTL. If not specified, the OS open uses
a TTL of 1 for the multicast traffic. Use the --ttl 12 option, for
instance, on server side.

-- 
BigBen

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