Mailing List Archive: Windows 10 + VLC + IPv6 SSM

Windows 10 + VLC + IPv6 SSM

Feb 12, 2016, 4:55 AM

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Hi,

on Ubuntu Linux, doing:

vlc udp://[source-IPv6-address]@[IPv6-mcast-group]:port

works just fine. MLD join is sent out, stream starts flowing, video is
shown.

When I try the same thing on Windows with VLC, it immediately throws an
error that it can't open this.

I can't find anyone else complaining about this, but then again I don't
think that many people are doing IPv6 SSM video multicast...

Anyone have any insight?

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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se

Re: Windows 10 + VLC + IPv6 SSM [ In reply to ]

elfkin at gmail

Feb 21, 2016, 12:24 PM

Post #2 of 3 (2100 views)

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On 12.02.2016 13:55, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
> Hi,

Hi

> Anyone have any insight?
>
They broke IPv6 multicast streaming in VLC version 2.0.6. It works in
version 2.0.5 although it required that you opened for ICMPv6 type 143
outgoing in the windows firewall (at least in Windows 7) in order to get
SSM to work. ASM worked fine iirc.

I opened a ticket with the Videolan team 15 months ago, but the ticket
hasn't received much attention:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/13071

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Harald

Re: Windows 10 + VLC + IPv6 SSM [ In reply to ]

swmike at swm

Feb 22, 2016, 12:18 AM

Post #3 of 3 (2094 views)

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On Sun, 21 Feb 2016, Harald F. Karlsen wrote:

> They broke IPv6 multicast streaming in VLC version 2.0.6. It works in
> version 2.0.5 although it required that you opened for ICMPv6 type 143
> outgoing in the windows firewall (at least in Windows 7) in order to get
> SSM to work. ASM worked fine iirc.
>
> I opened a ticket with the Videolan team 15 months ago, but the ticket
> hasn't received much attention:
> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/13071

Thanks a lot for this info.

I have now verified that VLC 2.0.5 indeed works on Windows 10 (at least if
I join the stream from a Linux box on the same subnet as the windows
machine), and VLC 2.0.6 gives an immediate error when trying to open the
same URL/stream.

I will send in this comment in the ticket.

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Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se