[mythtv] "New" Feature: RTSP streaming for myth backend

Robert Kulagowski bob at smalltime.com
Tue Feb 21 18:58:39 UTC 2006


> Also on a seemingly unrelated note is there someone out there that can
> answer an IGMP question?  Seems like in the case of networking
> equipment everything needs to support IGMP, linux is an easy one but
> what about the home networking structure.  Will home switches know how
> to pass these messages or should I start looking into other solutions?

IGMP is great if you've got a full-blown infrastructure, but "poor-man's 
multicast" can just be done as broadcast - you could make the 
destination IP address 255.255.255.255; in a home-network environment 
this may be "good enough".


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