VLC URLs

Media Resource Locators

All media played through libvlc are identified by their Media Resource Locator, or MRL. MRLs are a super-set of URLs, and include format-specific protocol schemes.

Available schemes include:

Scheme	Example	Comment
file	file:///path/file	Plain media file (i.e. FolderItem.URLPath)
http	http://host[:port]/file	HTTP URL
ftp	ftp://[user:password@]host[:port]/file	FTP URL
mms	mms://host[:port]/file	Microsoft Media Server URL
screen	screen://0	Screen capture
dvd	dvd:///Z:/	DVD device
dvdsimple	dvdsimple:///Z:/	DVD device with no menus
vcd	vcd:///Z:/	VCD device
cdda	cdda:///Z:/	Audio CD device
udp	udp://[[<source address>]@[<bind address>][:<bind port>]]	UDP stream sent by a streaming server