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I use vlc 3.0 x64 on win10, If I opened url like 'http://www.someurl.com/index.m3u8', the main window caption will show 'index.m3u8' on its caption, but If I use vlc 2.x , the caption shows total url like 'http://www.someurl.com/index.m3u8', so if I want to show caption in vlc3.x like 2.x, is it pos...

Today I occasionally found if I use vlc http://xxx command line to open this url , vlc performs normally, but if I use menu to open the same url, it fails with no error prompt , just show nothing in screen, so it's a bug for GUI?

VLC can parse bracketed IPv6 literals just fine here. Check your logs.

Thanks, then error log file exist in which directory?

This is a youtube ipv6 stream which can be played in vlc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd10hjClCXo However, I don't know where the settings are located to force ipv6 in the current version. That said it may not be necessary to do that considering the fact that the above link works out of the box...

You can only do it over a wired connection. Wi-Fi doesn't work: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/25104

Thanks , I use wired connection, not wifi, so what you said in second floor(select the Force IPv6 option), it can not solve the problem?

https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo/Streaming_over_IPv6/ Thanks for help, what you want me to read is Select File / Open Network Stream. To receive an UDP/RTP unicast stream sent to your system, you should select the Force IPv6 option (and possibly adjust the destination UDP por...

I use VLC 3.x in win10 x64 , media->open network stream menu, and input url like http://[2409:8c28:xx:xx:xx]/yy.../1.m3u8, only to receive error and nothing will show, but I can be sure this url is valid, since I can input this in my browser and return some url like http://..../1.ts and I can use do...