[FFmpeg-devel] MinGW network support

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> > Without this hack, ffserver is not working. Can you give me an
> > explanation why does Winsock returns socket numbers like 1754 and 1800?
> > Can I influence this to return normal socket numbers starting from 3 ?
> > 
> I would venture the guess these are actual port numbers. It seems 

Yes, it is likely a port number.

> unlikely you can force socket() to return 'normal' values, because it is 
> rather clear from the winsock documentation that sockets are *NOT* 
> 'files' but entities with their own API.

However, then why don't they implement select() working with this idea?
It does not work right with such socket numbers.

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Alex Beregszaszi