Network playlist

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Network playlist

Postby ShyLion » 01 Dec 2015 06:36

Hello.
I've got a network hosted playlist

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http://someserver.somedomain.com/pl/?param=value&param2=value&etc
, containing UDP multicast entries, like

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udp://@239.123.123.1:1234
.
How do i pass it to VLC?
I can put any content into playlist itself (it's actually PHP script).
What i want is to see list of channels and play them using VLC.

Specifying channel alone works fine, VLC nicely plays multicast stream in my environment,

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Re: Network playlist

Postby ShyLion » 01 Dec 2015 07:02

Worked around like this:

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# cat /var/www/html/ipad.html <HTML> <BODY> <A HREF="vlc-x-callback://x-callback-url/stream?url=udp%3A%2F%2F%40239.123.123.1%3A1234">Play UDP</A> </BODY> </HTML>
I open this page in Safari, tap on the link and it asks to play it in VLC and if i agree it start playing.
Any way to prevent it asking?

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Re: Network playlist

Postby fkuehne » 01 Dec 2015 12:02

Yes, you can add a no-questions-asked argument to the URL. See https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation ... llback-url
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Re: Network playlist

Postby ShyLion » 02 Dec 2015 05:08

Thank you, it worked.
Still, it's a workaround. Support for network playlist would be nice.

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Re: Network playlist

Postby fkuehne » 02 Dec 2015 14:50

I absolutely agree, but this won't be part of the next major release.
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Re: Network playlist

Postby ssbmaccom » 04 Dec 2015 14:51

Ever tried to use a m3u?
Much simpler to create.

Works basically, but with more than one entry in the m3u VLC for iOS does not yet support to switch to the next item, like VLC for Desktop is down it.


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