[vlc-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Add microdns services_advertisement submodule

Roland Bewick roland.bewick at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 08:49:23 CEST 2019


On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 2:32 PM, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, at 17:19, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> > Le maanantaina 2. syyskuuta 2019, 19.34.58 EEST Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> > > One other concern:
> > >
> > > SA modules should not annonce anything by default but the core should
> ask
> > > for it.
> > >
> > > I propose the following changes:
> > >  - The sa module initialize from Open but doesn't annonce anything, it
> just
> > > registers an annonce callback. - Add vlc_sa_annonce( libvlc, const char
> > > *name, const char *type, unsigned port ), that will call the annonce
> > > callback of the main SA.
> >
> > What makes you think a port number describe any and all types of service
> > announcements? The only currently supported announce types is SDP, and
> that's
> > definitely carrying a hell of a lot more data than a port number.
>
> SSDP is dead, SDP is for a very different purpose than advertising our
> servers.
> Call it vlc_sa_mdns_* or something, if you prefer...


So, the plan is to follow Thomas’ recommendations?

Any ideas about setting up libmicrodns as dual-stack rather than passing a
single IP address to listen to? Or, just advertise VLC on Ipv6 and forget
about v4?


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