[clug] MythTV on TransACT

[Alex Osborne]

Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> I wouldn't suggest a router, just put multiple IPs on the interface
> you're receiving from. Port binding is by IP address (or _ALL) as well
> as port, so a udp listener bound to 192.168.0.40:8208 won't interfere
> with a udp listener bound to 192.168.0.41:8208.
>   
Ah, I see what you mean. I had thought that the code was actually
binding to the 239.193.0.x IP when in fact mythtv's libavformat is just
doing this:
my_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl (INADDR_ANY);

No wonder it's picking up everything and getting totally confused! That
also explains why we're getting the port already in use message in the
first place.

It guess the reason they're doing this might be either because multicast
support was added as an after thought or for portability. Looking at
VLC's networking code finds this:

#if defined( WIN32 ) || defined( UNDER_CE )
    /* Under Win32 and for multicasting, we bind to INADDR_ANY,
     * so let's call BuildAddr with "" instead of psz_bind_addr */
    if( BuildAddr( &sock, IN_MULTICAST( ntohl( inet_addr(psz_bind_addr)
) ) ?
                   "" : psz_bind_addr, i_bind_port ) == -1 )
#else
    if( BuildAddr( &sock, psz_bind_addr, i_bind_port ) == -1 )
#endif

Why am I not surprised by which two systems the exception has to be made
for? ;-)

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