[streaming] How to change multicast port

Thomas Kernen tkernen at imap4all.com
Mon Mar 3 17:27:08 CET 2008


Which I think that considering the number of users out there using VLC 
would be a good idea. Then the issue would be solved and vendors could 
"register" the port in their IPTV/Video monitoring tools.

Thomas

Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> Maybe so, but the Infoseek Search Agent is still in use
> 
> http://isc.sans.org/port.html?port=1234
> 
> and so this make collisions with that possible.
> 
> VLC could, of course, have a port assigned to it if you wanted to  
> push through the paperwork.
> 
> Regards
> Marshall
> 
> On Mar 2, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> 
>> Le Sunday 02 March 2008 18:55:24 Marshall Eubanks, vous avez écrit :
>>> Please do not use 1234, as that is assigned to something else - see
>>>
>>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
>> Hmm well... VLC has been using port 1234 for ten years or so. I did  
>> consider
>> changing the default value to something else, such as the avt- 
>> profile-1 port
>> (5004), but I suspect that would break way too many existing setups.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Rémi Denis-Courmont
>> http://www.remlab.net/
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