[vlc] Re: PIM_SSM

[Benjamin Pracht]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005, shivanna biradar wrote :
> Hello All 
>  
> I am trying to do multicasting using PIM-SSM. I have installed  vlc media player  on  WINXP 
> and this acts as client ,  I have also one vlc media player on Linux Fedora . Iam trying to stream from the linux box to the XP box. 
>  
> Is there any special Requirements needed ....
>  
> - WinXP supports IGMPv3 , is that activated by default , or do i need to manualy set it
> What should i put in the metwork option : -receive from the multicast address or do i need to put the server address also with it and how that can be done.
>  
> - Regarding the Linux machine , is their requirements other than setting ttl to the number of hops. 
>  

VLC syntax for SSM streams is udp://server_ip@multicast_group:port

Don't know about default igmp versions for the OSs. It should be v3 for
both. You can use a network analyser to check this.

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BigBen

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