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VLC URLs

Andrew Lambert edited this page May 15, 2016 · 7 revisions

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

Available schemes are:

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:// Screen capture
dvd dvd://[device] DVD device
dvdsimple dvdsimple://[device] DVD device with no menus
vcd vcd://[device] VCD device
cdda cdda://[device] Audio CD device
udp udp://[[<source address>]@[<bind address>][:<bind port>]] UDP stream sent by a streaming server
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