On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 16:30 -0400, Keith Irwin wrote: > If it's just a straight MPEG-2 stream over IP, that should be pretty > simple. If there's a little more to headers and stuff, you should > still be able to handle it. Try using netcat to connect to them and > redirect the output to a file and then see if mplayer will play it. If > so, it should be a piece of cake.
Ok, I did some testing last night, and had some problems with multicast. I put a second network card in my machine, so that I could have the primary going to my LAN (and the internet) and the second going to the connection that has the multicast feed. I *could not* get my machine to join the multicast group from the secondary NIC, and I ruled out driver issues by switching around the driver loading sequence and cables (ie, switching eth0 and eth1). It seems like my box only wants to join mulicast on the interface with the default route, which is highly annoying to me. I even added a route for 224.0.0.0/4 on the secondary NIC, both normally and as a multicast route, and it never seems to pick it up. In any case, I now know I just have to switch my network cables around to play with multicast. I did some testing, and while I could get netcat to listen on the proper IP and port, it doesn't seem to know how to tell the kernel to join the multicast group, so it never gets any packets. I think tonight I'll just use VLC to dump the output from the network to a file, and then just take a look at the data that file contains, verify that it's just a plain MPEG2 TS. And then maybe after that I'll get to looking at some actual code. ;P
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