All things related to multicast

[Gary Parker <>]

Morning all,
	I've just popped VLC 0.8.6c onto a laptop running Vista Enterprise  
and it's behaving rather strangely with multicast traffic. For  
starters it's not seeing any SAP announcements when I turn them on in  
the playlist when an OS X box on the same switch is seeing all the  
usual stuff we carry on JANET and our local announces. Secondly,  
manually entering an address such as udp://@233.80.58.114:5000  
results in nothing being played back. If I play the same stream (it's  
BBC 6music) in Inuk's Freewire client, however, it works fine and VLC  
will also then play the stream and continue to play after the  
Freewire client is closed. It's almost as if VLC isn't instructing  
the IP stack to do group joins properly but once another, more  
compliant, application does the work VLC can then listen.

I've done some brief Googling but not turned anything up like this so  
wondered if folk on the list had had similar experiences?

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