[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avformat/rtpproto: add support for RTP/UDP socket reuse

[Camille Oudot]

On Sun, 2022-12-25 at 11:00 +0100, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:


> Again, there is also REUSEPORT, which is what you'd want on Linux in
> this case, but behaves differently on BSD and doesn't exist at all on
> Windows (IIRC).

That option is indeed preferable for security. It works equally good
for the muxing use case, on Linux, with UDP sockets. I don't see why
not using it instead, will do it in a new version of the patch.

> So even for sending, I don't think this patch really works.

REUSEADDR and thus this patch _are_ working well on Linux, with sockets
that only send datagrams. It might behave differently on other systems
though: I've read it is impossible to open two sockets having the same
proto/src IP/src port/dst IP/dst port on BSD systems, but I don't have
one handy. I will try it ASAP.

What is the project's policy on options that are incompatible with some
systems, or that behave differently?

Regards

-- 
Camille