All things related to multicast

[Alan Crosswell <>]

> Is anyone successfully using IPTV with Windows XP?  I installed 3.2 on my 
> XP machine and it worked great using SDP... once.  Then I clicked on an 
> MPEG-4/DiVX stream and it hasn't been right sine.  Now all IPTV does is 
> lock up at launchtime if configured for SDP.  If I delete the app's 
> registry settings and don't use SDP, it works fine.  Cisco doesn't want to 
> touch it because XP "isn't supported".
> 
> So... anyone else ran into this and figured out what was going on?  I'm 
> banging my head here.
> 
> -Michael
> 
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> Michael Hare
> UW-Madison Network Engineering
> WiscNet Network Engineering
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It doesn't work.  They claim 3.4 is coming out of beta soon and will fix
the XP problems.  It seems to work OK for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and possibly
H.261 but maybe not even that.  If you have a Cisco support contract,
open a TAC case.  I already have.  They will tell you to wait on 3.4,
but they need to hear that they should have had this code out by now.
XP's been around for a long time and like any software vendor, they had
early access to XP to test things.  Maybe if Precept were still its own
company this would have been more of a priority.

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