[vlc] Re: about vlc supporting

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005, zhu zxt wrote :
>     I use the VLC media player 0.8.1 (wxWindows interface). A problem puzzles me when vlc implementing multicast.
>    If there are more than one multicast servers working at the same time for one multicast address, are there conflict streamings at the clients? If there are, how can I make a client choose a specific multicast server?
>    Thank you! Look forward to your apply.
> 

There is generally an issue (ie, unreadable stream) if both servers send
on the same UDP port. A solution is to use source specific multicast,
that allows to choose the server. VLC supports this, but you need
support of igmpv3 and likely of PIM-SSM (perhaps other multicast routing
protacols support source multicast as well) on your network.

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BigBen

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