--http-user-agent missing from VLC 2.0 Command Line

[AndyH]

Hi,

I have been using VLC to stream content from a number of sites which include BBC and Youtube, for which there are requirements to send a specific User-Agent header. This worked fine in past versions of VLC, using the --http-user-agent=<string> command line option. But in VLC v2.0 this is no longer working. Is this a bug or is it now deprecated? It would be great to have this feature, especially since VLC 2.0 seems to be the only HLS enabled Windows player capable of adaptive bitrate selection from the M3U8 variant file (you get HLS from the BBC if you present the iPhone user-agent).

I guess otherwise I will need to implement a proxy which changes the user-agent header, but this seems like a lot of overhead.

Thanks
Andy

[VLC_help]

Option is still there

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--http-user-agent=<string> User Agent You can use a custom User agent or use a known one

but if it doesn't work, I will trac this during weekend.

[VLC_help]

Ticket is
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6244

[bobbob]

I just had the same problem and landed here after some googling.
Quote from TIcket:

Status changed from new to closed
Resolution set to wontfix

I just had to register after reading courmisch's rather grumpy responses on the ticket site.
Are you kidding me? Do I really have to download the sources, patch it and compile VLC myself because this option is oh so uber private? Its just a damn user agent string.
Did Videolan get bought by Apple or something else I'm not aware of?

[AndyH]

I guess that is the only way to solve this now. Thanks for your replies. If anyone does build this before I do, could I get hold of a copy?