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Actually, VLC is able to get and parse the playlist file - further research has, in fact, shown that VLC does send the username and password with the first request (the one getting the .m3u), but when it tries to get the tracks from the playlist, it doesn't authenticate itself. Just to be clear, thi...

Thank you for the suggestion, however, unless I'm missing some way to encode the username and password in the URL, it doesn't work. This: vlc http://user:pass@stream.magnatune.com/artists/albums/mit-diplomat/ogg_nospeech.m3u --sout '#transcode{acodec=mpga}:std{mux=wav,access=http,dst=10.0.0.1:8000}'...

Hey, I'm trying to listen to a HTTP stream requiring authentication - and I can't get VLC to sent the username and password. Here's what I'm trying: vlc http://stream.magnatune.com/artists/albums/mit-diplomat/ogg_nospeech.m3u --sout-http-user *username* --sout-http-pwd *password* --sout '#transcode{...

Oh, I see. I got it working - for reference, using the following command:

Hello, I am trying to stream a file over HTTP using VLC. I invoke using the following command: vlc -vvv /usr/music/test.wav --sout '#std{mux=wav,access=http,dst=10.0.0.1:8000}' I then get the following output: VLC media player 1.1.5 The Luggage (revision exported) [0x804caec] main libvlc debug: VLC ...