Support joining multicast addresses (both ASM and SSM).

[cubemap] / README

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@@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ A short list of features:
    and sending a SIGHUP; all clients will continue as if nothing had happened
    (unless you delete the stream they are watching, of course).
    Cubemap also survives the encoder dying and reconnecting.
- - Per-stream fwmark support, for TCP pacing through tc (separate config needed).
  - Support for setting max pacing rate through the fq packet scheduler
-   (obsoletes the previous point, but depends on experimental kernel patches
-   that will hit Linux in 3.13 at the earliest)
+   (depends on Linux 3.13 or newer).
  - Reflects anything VLC can reflect over HTTP, even the muxes VLC
    has problems reflecting itself (in particular, FLV).
+ - Multicast support, both for sending and receiving (supports only protocols
+   that can go over UDP, e.g. MPEG-TS). Supports both ASM and SSM.
  - IPv4 support. Yes, Cubemap even supports (some) legacy protocols.
 
 
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ HOWTO:
   sudo aptitude install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
   make -j4
 
-If you want to use HTTP input (you probably want to), patch VLC with the
-included file vlc-metacube.diff. Then start the VLC encoder with the
-“metacube” flag to the http access mux, like this:
+If you want to use HTTP input (you probably want to), you want VLC 2.2.0
+or newer. Then start the VLC encoder with the “metacube” flag to the http
+access mux, like this:
 
   cvlc [...] --sout '#std{access=http{metacube,mime=video/x-flv},mux=flv,dst=:4013/test.flv}'