[FFmpeg-devel] [patch] fix problem receiving udp multicast

Deti Fliegl deti at fliegl.de
Wed Nov 20 19:39:34 CET 2013


On 20.11.13 17:54, Deti Fliegl wrote:
> On 20.11.13 10:23, Ed Torbett wrote:
>>
>> Full RFC4570 support was added early august. The lack of binding is not what's stopping decoding, as udp.c contains code to filter based on source address outside of the binding.
>>
>> If you're not using SDP files, make sure you use the ?sources= parameter to set the multicast source addresses. If you are using SDP files then as stated in RFC4570 you should be using the source-filter attribute to specify the source address. 
> It clearly does not work with rtsp URLs and rtsp_transport set to
> udp_multicast. The SDP cannot contain any predefined IP address as the
> server could answer in unicast or multicast. In my example the SDP looks
> like this:
> v=0
> o=- 1188340656180883 1 IN IP4 172.16.1.147
> s=Session streamed with GStreamer
> i=rtsp-server
> t=0 0
> a=tool:GStreamer
> a=type:broadcast
> a=control:*
> a=range:npt=now-
> a=clock-domain:PTPv2 0
> a=sync-time:0
> m=audio 0 RTP/AVP 97
> c=IN IP4 0.0.0.0
> a=rtpmap:97 L16/48000/2
> a=control:stream=0
> 
> The resulting URL in rtsp.c line 1530 is rtp://224.3.2.0:5000?ttl=1
> 
> IMHO the rtsp code does not use sources when they are needed most. So
> what would you?

Instead of allowing bind in udp.c I now added 'sources' to the URL in
rtsp.c (see the patch attached) and did not receive any data. It seems
udp.c does not properly filter sources for multicast addresses.

Deti
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diff --git a/libavformat/rtsp.c b/libavformat/rtsp.c
index 3b88fc7..dc5baf8 100644
--- a/libavformat/rtsp.c
+++ b/libavformat/rtsp.c
@@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ int ff_rtsp_make_setup_request(AVFormatContext *s, const char *host, int port,
             break;
         }
         case RTSP_LOWER_TRANSPORT_UDP_MULTICAST: {
-            char url[1024], namebuf[50], optbuf[20] = "";
+            char url[1024], namebuf[50], optbuf[60] = "";
             struct sockaddr_storage addr;
             int port, ttl;
 
@@ -1522,11 +1522,12 @@ int ff_rtsp_make_setup_request(AVFormatContext *s, const char *host, int port,
                 ttl       = rtsp_st->sdp_ttl;
             }
             if (ttl > 0)
-                snprintf(optbuf, sizeof(optbuf), "?ttl=%d", ttl);
+                snprintf(optbuf, sizeof(optbuf), "&ttl=%d", ttl);
             getnameinfo((struct sockaddr*) &addr, sizeof(addr),
                         namebuf, sizeof(namebuf), NULL, 0, NI_NUMERICHOST);
             ff_url_join(url, sizeof(url), "rtp", NULL, namebuf,
-                        port, "%s", optbuf);
+                        port, "?sources=%s%s", namebuf, optbuf);
+            av_log(s, AV_LOG_DEBUG, "URL: %s\n", url);
             if (ffurl_open(&rtsp_st->rtp_handle, url, AVIO_FLAG_READ_WRITE,
                            &s->interrupt_callback, NULL) < 0) {
                 err = AVERROR_INVALIDDATA;


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