IGMP Snooping without Router

Hello Florian

Rene has a lesson dedicated to this very question. You can find it here.

However, to provide a quick answer to your questions:

Yes it should work. In Rene’s lesson, he provides to solutions to making multicast work without a router. One is to make one switch a querier. The other is to configure PIM on the SVI interface of one of the switches. Take a look at the lesson for more details.

Essentially, yes, this is one of the fundamental functions of a multicast router.

I hope this has been helpful!

Laz