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Has anyone had any success using VLC 0.7.2 to view an http stream through a proxy server?

I have a Windows 2000 PC at home running VLC 0.7.2 that captures video/audio, transcodes it to WMV2 at 128Kbps and MP3 at 32Kbps, mux's using ASF, and streams using http.

When I'm at work behind the corporate firewall, I can successfully view this stream over the Internet using Windows Media Player 9.0 as long as I configure WMP to use our proxy server. It works great.

However, when I try to view the same stream on the same PC using VLC 0.7.2, it does not work, even if I configure VLC to use the same proxy server via Settings->Preferences->Modules->access->access_http .

Here is the message log I get when I try to connect using VLC. (and, yes, the IP adresses have been changed for my protection).


main debug: creating new input thread
main: playlist item `http://11.22.33.44:8080'
main debug: waiting for thread completion
main debug: access `http', demux `', name `11.22.33.44:8080'
main debug: looking for access module
main debug: probing 1 candidate
main debug: thread 2916 (input) created at priority 1 (src/input/input.c:326)
main debug: cmd=state old=10 new=1
main debug: playing at normal rate
access_http debug: http: server='11.22.33.44' port=8080 file='(null)
access_http debug: proxy 55.66.77.88:8000
main debug: net: connecting to '55.66.77.88:8000'
main debug: looking for network module
main debug: probing 2 candidates
ipv4 debug: connection in progress
main debug: using network module "ipv4"
main debug: unlocking module "ipv4"
access_http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 404
access_http error: error: HTTP/1.0 404 Not found
main debug: net: connecting to '55.66.77.88:8000'
main debug: looking for network module
main debug: probing 2 candidates
ipv4 debug: connection in progress
main debug: using network module "ipv4"
main debug: unlocking module "ipv4"
access_http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 404
access_http error: error: HTTP/1.0 404 Not found
main warning: no access module matching "http" could be loaded
main error: no suitable access module for `http/://11.22.33.44:8080'
main debug: pes: 0 packets
main debug: data: 0 packets
main debug: buffers: 0 packets
main debug: thread 2916 joined (src/input/input.c:373)


Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

kjo

Has anyone else seen this problem or is it just me?

Thanks,

kjo

Hello,

There was indeed a bug with proxy servers in vlc 0.7.2.

It is currently fixed in the development version, so you could try the nightly builds (vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan)

Zorglub,

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried the latest build, and it works. From my perspective, the latest 0.7.3 build has a fix for my http proxy problem.

Thanks again,

kjo