[vlc] Re: Several multicast sources on a single group

[Dermot McGahon]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:30:26 -0400, John Anderson <john at gocoretec.com>  
wrote:

>> Is there any plan in the near future to enable VLC to receive a
>> multicast stream from a single source only?
>> Better yet, to enable VLC to automatically create a window for each
> sources?
>
> Could you explain the problem a little better?  If you have two streams
> broadcasting on the same MC group with the same port then it should be
> expected that the streams will mix.  How would you distinguish between  
> the
> two sources?
>

There is an IETF draft for source specific multicast (SSM):

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ssm-arch-06.txt


Dermot.
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