[AG-TECH] linux not recieving own vic stream

[Jennifer Teig von Hoffman]

Hi Frank,

Somebody said something the other day on the MOO about this being normal behavior in linux. I'd never seen it before myself, though. I'm assuming you hadn't either in earlier versions of AG?

- Jennifer

Frank Sweetser wrote:

> I'm having what I'm guessing is a multicast related issue under linux.  I'm
> using AGTk 2.1.2-9 that's been hanging out in the TVS venue (and is working
> quite well otherwise!) on RedHat 9 with the latest stock kernel.
> 
> Essentially, my problem is that my VideoConsumer vic isn't seeing the stream
> from my VideoProducer vic.  I've found a few bits by googling on setting up
> multicast streams to loop back, but only from a programmers point of view, ie,
> something that vic itself would be doing when creating the stream.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way I could fix this without having to delve into the
> vic source?
>