[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] rtsp address in use

[Michael A. Kohn]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Thijs Vermeir wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Problem:  Starting ffplay to an RTSP stream works great, but when going
>> to a second shell and starting a second RTSP stream an error of:
>> bind: address in use  comes up on the screen in an infinite loop
>> Looks like the RTSP code uses the same UDP ports every time it's
>> started.
>
> The UDP source has now a reuse option. Using this will take this
> adress in use message away. I think the simplest patch is to enable it
> by default for RTSP....
>
> And why not always enable this option by default?
>
> Gr,
> Thijs

I don't think address reuse is going to allow multiple instances of ffplay
to run on the same computer.

/mike