What are the potential pitfalls or challenges when trying to analyze and capture Multicast streams in PHP?

Analyzing and capturing Multicast streams in PHP can be challenging due to the lack of built-in support for handling Multicast traffic. One potential pitfall is the need for specialized libraries or extensions to work with Multicast streams efficiently. To overcome this challenge, developers can utilize third-party libraries like PHP Sockets or stream wrappers to handle Multicast streams effectively. 

// Example code snippet using PHP Sockets to capture Multicast streams
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, SOL_UDP);
socket_set_option($socket, IPPROTO_IP, MCAST_JOIN_GROUP, array('group' => '239.255.1.1', 'interface' => 0));
socket_bind($socket, '0.0.0.0', 1234);

while (true) {
    $data = '';
    socket_recvfrom($socket, $data, 1024, 0, $ip, $port);
    echo "Received data from $ip:$port - $data\n";
}

socket_close($socket);

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