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OK, I actually went to the trouble of creating a named pipe (a stream object that can be referenced as a file) and told VLC to access=file mux=mp4 to a real file and to the named pipe. In the program that created the named pipe, I read data off the pipe and wrote it to a file. I figured that it shou...

The output of VLC when mux=mp4 differs when access=http and when access=file. The same byte stream is not produced for both. The access=file resulting file plays in a H264 HTML5 enabled browser, while the the access=http stream does not. The only difference in these two examples is the access value ...