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Posted: **27 Sep 2013 11:18**

Hi,

Not sure if this is a bug or just that the new VLC works differently:

Previously, I could open a UDP SSM multicast stream using:

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udp://<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>

In the latest stable release, I now get:

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Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL ''udp://<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>'. Check the log for details.

Looking at the logs, I have:

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main debug: processing request item: udp://<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>, node: Playlist, skip: 0
main debug: resyncing on udp://<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>
main debug: udp://<multicast_address>:<multicast_port> is at 5
main debug: starting playback of the new playlist item
main debug: resyncing on udp://<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>
main debug: udp://<multicast_address>:<multicast_port> is at 5
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'udp://<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>'
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB, in path 'C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp'
main debug: `udp://<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>' gives access `udp' demux `' path `<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>'
main debug: creating demux: access='udp' demux='' location='<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>' file='\\<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>'
main debug: looking for access_demux module matching "udp": 19 candidates
main debug: no access_demux modules matched
main debug: creating access 'udp' location='<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>', path='\\<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>'
main debug: looking for access module matching "udp": 16 candidates
main debug: no access modules matched
main error: open of `udp://<unicast_address>@<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>' failed
main debug: dead input
main debug: Destroying the input for 'udp://<multicast_address>:<multicast_port>'
main debug: changing item without a request (current 5/6)
main debug: nothing to play

Posted: **27 Sep 2013 19:52**

Try RTP, but I never knew about this syntax

Posted: **27 Sep 2013 20:13**

Cheers - I'll give that a go. In fact, the stream in question comes from a VLC offshoot - dvblast:

http://www.videolan.org/projects/dvblast.html

I initially used udp rather than rtp because it allowed me to differentiate between the cache applied to rtp and udp streams from a single instance of VLC

I understand that teh various cache flags have changed in VLC 2.1 anyway though, so I'll look into what they are now

Thanks!

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