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Network playlist

Posted: 01 Dec 2015 06:36
by ShyLion
Hello.
I've got a network hosted playlist

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http://someserver.somedomain.com/pl/?param=value&param2=value&etc
, containing UDP multicast entries, like

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udp://@239.123.123.1:1234
.
How do i pass it to VLC?
I can put any content into playlist itself (it's actually PHP script).
What i want is to see list of channels and play them using VLC.

Specifying channel alone works fine, VLC nicely plays multicast stream in my environment,

Re: Network playlist

Posted: 01 Dec 2015 07:02
by ShyLion
Worked around like this:

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# cat /var/www/html/ipad.html <HTML> <BODY> <A HREF="vlc-x-callback://x-callback-url/stream?url=udp%3A%2F%2F%40239.123.123.1%3A1234">Play UDP</A> </BODY> </HTML>
I open this page in Safari, tap on the link and it asks to play it in VLC and if i agree it start playing.
Any way to prevent it asking?

Re: Network playlist

Posted: 01 Dec 2015 12:02
by fkuehne
Yes, you can add a no-questions-asked argument to the URL. See https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation ... llback-url

Re: Network playlist

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 05:08
by ShyLion
Thank you, it worked.
Still, it's a workaround. Support for network playlist would be nice.

Re: Network playlist

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 14:50
by fkuehne
I absolutely agree, but this won't be part of the next major release.

Re: Network playlist

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 14:51
by ssbmaccom
Ever tried to use a m3u?
Much simpler to create.

Works basically, but with more than one entry in the m3u VLC for iOS does not yet support to switch to the next item, like VLC for Desktop is down it.