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

Rémi Denis-Courmont remi at remlab.net
Fri Jul 31 15:23:01 CEST 2009


On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:07:28 -0400, Andre-John Mas <ajmas at sympatico.ca>
wrote:
> 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?

Then what? Most IPv6 nodes have no DNS host name, especially "client"
nodes, and when they do, there is no reliable way to find it.

As much as live555 sucks not to support multicast RTP over IPv6, I cannot
blame it for not supporting RTSP over IPv6.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont




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