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I am making my first attempt at streaming across a network. RTP Unicast and HTTP work. RTP Multicast does not. I am using File | Wizard to set up the server. I select RTP Multicast and enter 224.0.0.0 for the destination. I set TTL to 5.

On the client I choose File | Open Network Stream, select UDP/RTP multicast and enter 224.0.0.0 in the address. I leave the Port set to the default value of 1234 then click OK. The client never starts playing the stream.

I have read the manual but must of it assumes a lot of knowledge that I do not have. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong or point me to some documentation for rank beginners? Thanks.

Try using another multicast address: 224.0.0.0 is a net address. Try avoiding the 224.0.0.0/8 range all together as it contains a lot of "well known" addresses used by routers and routing protocols to exchange management information:
Address Usage
224.0.0.1 All systems on this subnet
224.0.0.2 All routers on this subnet
224.0.0.5 OSPF routers
224.0.0.6 OSPF designated routers
224.0.0.12 DHCP server/relay agent
See http://cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cis ... pmulti.htm for more information on IP Multicast addresses.

A good idea is to use addresses in the 239.0.0.0/8 range as this is considered as the "private" address range for multicast, like 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/16 and 192.168.0.0/16 for unicast.


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