Multicast source

[Mathias Kretschmer]

Hi,

I've tested my patches mainly under Linux and MacOS X and found them to
work fine.

Try the following:

vlc --broadcast <multicast group> ts://<server IP or 0.0.0.0>:port 

Under MacOS X you might run into the problem that vlc can not increase
the
size of the socket's receive buffer. I've submitted another patch -
which should be
included in the current (CVS) version - that deals with that issue.
It'll make vlc print
out a warning instead of terminating the whole thing.

Looking at the 0.291 code, it can't see how IP Multicast could work
under WIN32, since
someone commented out the relevant code. It might work under some
special circumstances, but
the WIN32 needs fixing. 

My initial patch should have worked under WIN32, since I took it out of
a source tree
that runs fine under Unix and Windows. I might have made a small mistake
while changing
variable names or adding header files. I can't really tell since I don't
have a proper 
environment to build the windows version. The major difference is that
windows bind()s to
0.0.0.0 instead of the multicast group.

Cheers,

-Mathias


> We have tested musticast with vlc on our local network. It seems to work fine.
>  Mathias K wrote the patch to get this working.
> 
> DS
> Tristan Leteurtre wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001, Bindley, Sean wrote:
> > > Is vlc capable of "tuning" into an MPEG-2 stream that is being multicast on
> > > a network.  If so, how do you do it?
> >
> > In theory, vlc should be able to support multicast, it has been coded by
> > never tested. I do not personnaly know how to use multicast with vlc,
> > but we may test this feature in several weeks.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Tooney