[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] default multicast to socket reuse

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 07:39:38PM +0300, Brian Gitonga Marete wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:54 PM, David Fries <david at fries.net> wrote:
> >
> > We have a number of streams that are being multicast on the local
> > network and have a .sdp file useed to configure ffplay and the ffmpeg
> > library to listen in to those stream.  In this case there isn't any
> > way to tell ffmpeg to set the SO_REUSEADDR flag so that multiple
> > programs on the same computer can receive the same multicast stream.
> > With the sdp configuration file ffmpeg will build the uri internally
> > so there isn't any way to specify the reuse=1 option in the uri.  This
> > defaults udp.c to enable socket reuse if it is multicast and reuse=0
> > is not specified.
> 
> Hi. Experiencing the same problem here. It does not appear that this
> patch or an equivalent fix has been merged. Meanwhile, this patch no
> longer applies to the tip. What to the FFmpeg devs recommend should be
> the way forward on this? Will an update of David's patch be
> acceptable?

I think it has been fixed at some point but if not a patch and or
bugreport is always welcome

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