[MPlayer-dev-eng] patch for udp socket reuse for rtp multicast.

Nico Sabbi nicola_sabbi at fastwebnet.it
Wed Mar 7 21:42:12 CET 2007


Sergey Pinaev wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:42:28 +0100
> Nico Sabbi <nicola_sabbi at fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>why only for multicast? some time later you may want it
>>>for broadcast or even unicast =)
>>>
>>
>>like this?
>>Is it safe to set that flag unconditionally or should it be driven
>>by an option?
> 
> 
> yes.
> safe for multicast/broadcast. for unicast only one copy of programm
> will(should) receive packets. in that case second programm will fail
> with reason that no data received. imho it is acceptable. maybe
> issuing a message like "Another player already playing stream?" would
> be helpful.
> 

just to play safe I'll commit this patch if no one objects

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