Opened 13 years ago

Last modified 6 years ago

#368 new enhancement

enable interface selection for udp multicast on ipv6

Reported by: A. Steinmetz Owned by:
Priority: wish Component: avformat
Version: git-master Keywords: udp
Cc: Michael Niedermayer, Marton Balint Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

In case of udp multicast ffmpeg binds to the default interface which will quite often be wrong on multihomed hosts. The auth field of the udp uri is now used to optionally specify the interface address or name to select the interface.

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ffmpeg-0.7.1-multicastif.patch (6.0 KB ) - added by A. Steinmetz 13 years ago.

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Change History (6)

by A. Steinmetz, 13 years ago

comment:1 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 11 years ago

Keywords: udp added
Priority: normalwish

The patch does not apply anymore to current git head, whoever wants to work on this, please also send the patch to ffmpeg-devel where patches typically receive more attention.

comment:2 by Michael Niedermayer, 9 years ago

whats the status of this ?
is this still open?
if so why does noone update the patch ...

comment:3 by Michael Niedermayer, 9 years ago

Cc: Michael Niedermayer added

comment:4 by Marton Balint, 6 years ago

Cc: Marton Balint added
Summary: enable interface selection for udp multicastenable interface selection for udp multicast on ipv6

For IPv4 this should work fine using the ?localaddr option.

comment:5 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 6 years ago

Version: 0.7.1git-master
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