Postby PeterHutnick » 20 Oct 2009 00:02
I find this all very confusing.
Using VLC 1.0.2 on MacOS there is a URL bar that populates through the various buttons and knobs. There is also a collapsed MRL field. When the automatically generated URL isn't what I want, I can fix it in the MRL bar. (Unfortunately, the MacOS IP stack doesn't support IGMPv3, so SSM is impossible.)
On windows there is the same URL bar, then there are two MRL bars. One automatically populates. The other stays blank. The implication is that I can copy/paste from the read only MRL bar to the read/write MRL bar, and then edit. When I do this it tries (an fails) to connect to the incorrect MRL from the read only MRL bar. That is to say that anything I enter in the second MRL bar is ignored by VLC.
The problem, specifically, is that VLC likes to stick an at sign in front of the first IP address in a SSM address. Pre-1.0 versions of VLC allow editing of the MRL, and can connect to my multicast.
Where am I going wrong? (Or, if I'm not doing it wrong, when will this be fixed?)
Thanks,
Peter