[vlc-devel] Adding multicast tunneling

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:18:46 -0500, "Sachin K" <sachinutd at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to integrate automatic multicast tunneling gateway
> capability (AMT gateway - draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-08.txt)
> into VLC.
>
> AMT gateway encapsulates the IGMP membership reports and sends to an
> AMT relay which has multicast access. Gateway then decapsulates the
> incoming multicast packets from relay and gives to the application.
>
> Where do I start looking in the VLC code? I have already setup the
> Cygwin-VLC build environment on a windows-xp machine.

The few lines of multicasting code are in src/network/udp.c, but...
IGMP is handled by the IP stack (Winsock if Windows), not by VLC.

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