FYI:
While toying around with vlc ( Mac OSX 10.3.8 ) I found out, that all of the daily builds of vlc 0.8.(2 ?)I tried ( three of them including the current as of 13th March 2005 ) arent able to open a playlist file containing a link to a http stream.
I still am able to open the stream successful using the commandline interface, but not using the GUI. Wether I manually enter the URL in the open dialog or just try to open the file - which works very nice in 0.8.1.
I dont know if it should be possible - but it doesnt work like in the relase version.