While using the relatively new feature of source-specific multicast (patched 
with 
http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/ffmpeg.git/?a=commit;h=75d339e044f9b87dd9aa4bdaee73b1a8323d4a15)
I tried giving 2 sources, instead of a single source.  e.g. 
udp://[email protected]:3100?sources=172.31.1.21,172.31.2.21
I assumed (incorrectly) that the linux kernel would fail-over to the 2nd source 
if there was an interruption or some other error with the first source.
Instead, I'm just getting packets from both sources simultaneously, which is 
not useful for me.  

So the question is:
1) for streaming video, why would one want this sort of behavior? (packets 
delivered simultaneously from >1 source)
2) is there any way to dynamically implement fail-over at the receiver with 
ffmpeg & source-specific multicast?

Thanks, David
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