--- title: Multicast TV Distribution on my Home Network | daily.dev description: A deep dive into IP multicast for home network TV distribution, covering how multicast routing works with a 'backwards' routing table, link-local multicast... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/multicast-tv-distribution-on-my-home-network-x3e2dnrlj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Multicast TV Distribution on my Home Network | daily.dev og:description: A deep dive into IP multicast for home network TV distribution, covering how multicast routing works with a 'backwards' routing table, link-local multicast... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/multicast-tv-distribution-on-my-home-network-x3e2dnrlj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/X3E2dnRLJ.png og:image:alt: Multicast TV Distribution on my Home Network og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Multicast TV Distribution on my Home Network **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A deep dive into IP multicast for home network TV distribution, covering how multicast routing works with a 'backwards' routing table, link-local multicast examples using FFmpeg (with and without transcoding), and routed multicast spanning VLANs/subnets using FRR with source-specific multicast (SSM). 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