Re: Transport stream source

[Ralf Gorholt]

Thank you, this would explain why it did not work out of the box. I had
tried multi-cast.

Ralf

Am 04.04.2021 um 20:22 schrieb Marcus D. Leech:
> On 04/04/2021 12:22 PM, Ralf Gorholt wrote:
> > Hello Steven,
> >
> > when I look at your flow graph, that is exactly what I have tried to
> > do (use a UDP source and UDP sink) but it did not work. Could it be
> > because I had not put a throttle between source and sink?
> >
> > I will try to reproduce what you have done and see if it works (I
> > don't know 'socat' and have never used it before).
> >
> > Ralf
> I'll note that any application using multi-cast UDP must do some
> "special dances" with most OS in order for multi-cast to "work".
>
> See, for example, some example code here:
>
> https://gist.github.com/hostilefork/f7cae3dc33e7416f2dd25a402857b6c6
>
>
> It's unlikely that the gr UDP source/sink "know" how to handle
> multi-cast by themselves.