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As for why the VLC :http-user-agent option does not work on the Android GUI app, that's simple: the GUI app is not VLC. It's a completely separate Android-specific app from VLC proper, that just happens to use LibVLC to play media files. --http-user-agent is a libVLC option. The Android GUI app eve...

I have the same issue with latest VLC 3.5.4 on Android using LibVLC 3.0.18. While :http-user-agent works on Linux (command line), neither :http-user-agent , nor --http-user-agent works on Android after specified at Settings > Advanced > Custom libVLC options . So literally on Android there is no way...