[vlc] Re: VLC and IGMPv3 multicast streaming on Windows XP

[Thomas Kuiper]

Hello,

Benjamin Pracht wrote:
>>
>>In short, is there any way to force VLC to send IGMPv3 join/leave packets?
>>Cause when testing it on a Windows XP Computer (XP Pro, SP2) I only see 
>>IGMPv2 packets in Ethereal arriving (Ethereal is the latest version, VLC too).
>>
>>Thank you for any suggestions how I could get it run IGMPv3.
> 
> Well, this shouldn't be VLC related. VLC only tells the OS it wants to
> join a multicast group. The OS then generates the proper igmp messages.
> However, from my experience, at least with unix boxes, the OS switches
> to IGMPv2 as soon as it sees a IGMPv2 on the link. Is there any IGMPv3
> unaware element on your link ?

This was indeed the problem. After rebooting and unplugging the LAN it 
worked :-)

Thanks,
Thomas

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