[FFmpeg-devel] UDP multicasts mixed up on receive due to wrong bind()

[Jindrich Makovicka]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:20, Luca Abeni <lucabe72 at email.it> wrote:
> Hi Baptiste,
>
> Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> [...]
>>>>> Everything we need are windows testers ;-)
>>>> I run Windows on a regular basis. You need something testing, I'm all ears. :)
>>> Just create a multicast stream with vlc (it should have some
>>> wizard to do this) and then try to receive it with
>>> ffplay udp://<multicast address>:port
>>>
>>> Apply Jindrich's patch, and see if it breaks something. Then,
>>> apply my patch and repeat the same experiment.
>>>
>>
>> Can we fix this issue ?
>
> AFAIR, what we miss is a patch that works on as many systems as possible.
> I think we arrived to the conclusion that the best thing to do is:
> first, try to bind the multicast group; then, if the first bind fails,
> try to bind INADDR_ANY. Both Jindrich's patch and my one are missing
> the second part...

This version tries the binding of the local address if the multicast
bind fails. I didn't test it on windows though.

-- 
Jindrich Makovicka
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