[streaming] [vlc] VLC Tech Support: Does it support MLD v2 and SSM ??

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:38:42 +0530, Shivani Bansal <shezban at gmail.com>
wrote:
>    1. Does it support MLD v2(RFC 3810 -
>    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3810.html)?

Yes, subject to operating system support.

>    2. Does it support source specific multicast:(SSM)

Yes, subject to operating system support.

>    3. if SSM is supported by vlc, how to use this feature in vlc.

With SDP, you can use the source attribute. For plain RTP and UDP streams,
the syntax is:
rtp://SOURCE_IP:SOURCE_PORT@GROUP_IP:GROUP_PORT
udp://SOURCE_IP:SOURCE_PORT@GROUP_IP:GROUP_PORT

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Rémi Denis-Courmont