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Can anyone explain to me what SAP is?

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Can anyone explain to me what SAP is?

Postby m.e » 28 Jan 2006 10:14

I've read in the howto's and I've searched on the forums but I can't figure out what SAP is.

I would appreciate if someone could explain it to me.
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Frank Fulchiero

Re: Can anyone explain to me what SAP is?

Postby Frank Fulchiero » 17 Mar 2006 02:50

I've read in the howto's and I've searched on the forums but I can't figure out what SAP is.
I would appreciate if someone could explain it to me.
SAP is a protocol to announce Internet multicast conferencing sessions. A conference is announced by periodically multicasting a UDP announcement packet to a multicast address and port.
A SAP "listener" can pick them up and act as a program guide. VLC has a built-in SAP listener.

http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/mmboo ... de184.html
http://www.zvon.org/tmRFC/RFC2974/Output/chapter3.html
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