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I'm writing an Qt desktop application (C++) which uses libVLC to play video streams. Almost everything works really well. Thanks for this - VLC is really great!

I initialize libVLC without any proxy setting, but give the http proxy setting as part of the mrl in form :http_proxy=http://whatever.com:1234/

Should it work that way? Or must the proxy be set when initializing libVLC?

Thanks in advance,
Jörg

At least on MacOS and Linux, LibVLC gets the proxy settings from the system.

Thank you very much for your fast reply.

On the command line help I read that the environment variable is used if the option is not set.

I tried the command line option --http_proxy when starting VLC and it worked well. But when giving it as an mrl option (:http_proxy) to the media's mrl it will bypass the proxy.

I'll try to give the proxy option to libvlc when initializing it.

I will tell if this works.

Best regards,
Jörg

Sorry for confusion. I made a typo ... it works well. The correct option is named :http-proxy or --http-poxy but NOT http_proxy ...