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Hi there, long-time VLC user but I've got a new challenge that I'm having a hard time figuring out.

System is Server2008R2 running 2.1.0 - I've tried both 32 and 64 bit versions.

Short story - Server will provide an mjpeg video stream via HTTPS. If I use Internet Explorer, accept the invalid certificate, input the username/password, it will prompt me to open or save the stream. I can't do anything else in IE, but I suppose that's proof that the stream does exist.

Using the GUI, I type this in:

https://xx.xx.xx.xx:2222/mjpeg/<guid of device>

I also tried putting that "@" in after the https://

What do I do about the username and password? I tried doing the https://username:password@xx.xx.xx.xx:2222/mjpeg/<guid of device> without success.

It always just says 'unable to open MRL'

Any suggestions?

Okay so I have progress.

I changed the message output verbosity to '2' and watched the outputs. It doesn't seem to trust the self-signed certificate.

I've done some searching and someone usually says 'those certs aren't trustworthy anyways".

The fact is, I don't have an option to turn off SSL/TLS, and this is a closed network, so I'm not worried about someone in the middle hijacking my session.

With that said, is it possible to overlook the self-signed cert?

Accept the invalid certificate in the dialog.

I'll have to explore this further.

There was no dialog. Two things changed - not sure which mattered. I got an external laptop running w7 32-bit, first installed VLC, then imported the certificate into the Windows certificate store.

Once I did these, I opened VLC on the new laptop and was presented with a dialog box that asked me to accept the cert.

Would this dialog box have shown up if I didn't import the cert?

Either way, I'm rolling with the new laptop.