I finally got to the bottom of this problem and the solution might prove useful to anyone supporting VLC from versions 2.x to 3.x or the differences between windows and android versions. The problem was with my source that was specifically looking for HTTP/1.1 in the request and returning 404 error ...
Well that was a surprise, It doesn't work in VLC 3.0.0-rc7 on Windows. It works fine in 2.2.8 on windows which is what I had been using up until now.
Do you want me to start a thread in the Windows topic too?
I don't think that it is RTSP.
1. I tried rtsp://192.168.0.44:1101/video and it didn't work.
2. If it was RTSP would http://192.168.0.44:1101/video work on a windows copy of VLC?
I have a device on my network that is sending out a H264 video stream. I can watch it very successfully with VLC on any windows device but when I try with VLC for android or VLC for Fire I can't get it to work. On windows I request the stream http://192.168.0.44:1101/video but trying the same as an ...
Its not much help but if you "Clear Data" (I use the link in Preferences/Advanced/Clear media database) then it will refresh. It looses all of your settings but it is probably quicker than a reinstall.