[vlc-devel] Adding multicast tunneling

[Sachin K]

> > I am trying to integrate automatic multicast tunneling gateway
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> > capability (AMT gateway - draft-ietf-mboned-auto-multicast-08.txt)
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> > into VLC.
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> > AMT gateway encapsulates the IGMP membership reports and sends to an
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> > AMT relay which has multicast access. Gateway then decapsulates the
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> > incoming multicast packets from relay and gives to the application.
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> >
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> > Where do I start looking in the VLC code? I have already setup the
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> > Cygwin-VLC build environment on a windows-xp machine.
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> The few lines of multicasting code are in src/network/udp.c, but...
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> IGMP is handled by the IP stack (Winsock if Windows), not by VLC.
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Yes, IGMP is handled by the OS. But we want to remove the OS
dependency for IGMPv3/SSM support.

Idea is to have AMT generate IGMPv3 joins if VLC does not get any
multicast data for a certain amount of time.

-Sachin