Opened 9 years ago

Last modified 9 years ago

#4473 new defect

Can't receive RTP stream on FreeBSD

Reported by: Andrey Zholos Owned by:
Priority: normal Component: avformat
Version: unspecified Keywords: rtp
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

I'm trying to transmit a simple point-to-point RTP audio stream on FreeBSD.

Command to send the stream (codec parameters match one of the static RTP payload types):

$ ffmpeg -f lavfi -i 'sine=440:4:r=8000' -f rtp -acodec pcm_mulaw -ac 1 -ar 8000 rtp://127.0.0.1:20000

Command to receive the stream:

$ ffplay -f rtp rtp://127.0.0.1:20000

The send command works. The receive command receives the first packet and correctly detects the stream format, but doesn't receive the actual stream or even open a UDP socket for it.

The same thing happens trying to receive through the SDP file printed by the send command.

Logs attached.

I traced the reason to a failing getnameinfo() call. The call has a salen parameter which is passed sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage), but should be passed sizeof(struct sockaddr_in) (or whatever the actual address struct is). I guess Linux accepts this but FreeBSD doesn't. The call returns EAI_FAIL ("non-recoverable failure in name resolution").

Relevant quote from the FreeBSD manpage:

The sockaddr structure sa should point to either a sockaddr_in,
sockaddr_in6 or sockaddr_dl structure (for IPv4, IPv6 or link-layer
respectively) that is salen bytes long.

And from POSIX:

The salen argument contains the length of the address pointed to by sa.

Patch that fixes the issue above attached, but there are other similar calls to getnameinfo().

Attachments (4)

send.out (2.7 KB ) - added by Andrey Zholos 9 years ago.
receive-bug.log (5.0 KB ) - added by Andrey Zholos 9 years ago.
receive-works.log (6.1 KB ) - added by Andrey Zholos 9 years ago.
rtp.patch (525 bytes ) - added by Andrey Zholos 9 years ago.

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Change History (5)

by Andrey Zholos, 9 years ago

Attachment: send.out added

by Andrey Zholos, 9 years ago

Attachment: receive-bug.log added

by Andrey Zholos, 9 years ago

Attachment: receive-works.log added

by Andrey Zholos, 9 years ago

Attachment: rtp.patch added

comment:1 by Michael Niedermayer, 9 years ago

Keywords: rtp added

sockaddr_storage does not have a ss_len field. Aka this solution seems not portable

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