[vlc-devel] Does Latest release of VLC support IPV6 for RTSP media client

[Andre-John Mas]

On 31-Jul-2009, at 06:31, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

>
>    Hello,
>
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:04:01 +0530, Deepti.Saraswat at sdc.canon.co.in  
> wrote:
>> Does Latest release of VLC support IPV6 for RTSP media  client ?
>> If yes, any open source is there whcih can be used to get all those
>> featues.
>
> The design of the RTSP/1.0 protocol, as defined per IETF RFC2326, is  
> such
> that IPv6 is not allowed by the protocol syntax.
> So evidently, VLC cannot do RTSP over IPv6 either.

Looking at the RFC it doesn't cover the numerical IPv6 format, but  
should
that also mean the IPv6 named hosts shouldn't be supported?

André-John