VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

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VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby erwinxxx » 13 Feb 2018 23:06

I try to find the boxes to fill in proxy server address and port number but I don't see it on the access modules/ HTTP(S) settings only a box to check with forward cookies.

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Re: VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby erwinxxx » 15 Feb 2018 10:39

Someone can help me out?

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Re: VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby rogerdpack » 21 Feb 2018 22:45

I also can't seem to specify an http proxy via the command line like I used to :(

--http-proxy=...

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Re: VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby gabb7 » 28 Feb 2018 23:01

agree. The settings is gone from the GUI (input/http) and cli says:
"Warning: option --http-proxy no longer exists."

I *really* hope they haven't started using osx system proxy settings. That would be less than ideal ...

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Re: VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby vom » 11 May 2018 16:20

I've just ran into this issue. I've just updated to 3.0.2 - issue still persists (HTTP settings are nearly blank, one option, no proxy info).

The behavior I observe is that I must disable my system proxy to have VLC go direct (i.e. it IS using system proxy). I tried to add exceptions to the proxy config, but VLC doesn't seem to honor these (counter example: minecraft DOES honor the exceptions properly). When I disable my system proxy - VLC works as expected.

I would prefer something akin to Java or Firefox options - that is something like:

  • No proxy (direct)
  • System proxy
  • Custom proxy
Should I open a trac ticket for this ?

Thanks.

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Re: VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby gabb7 » 12 May 2018 00:08

gave up on this. I have rolled back to the old(er) version ... which has this ...

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Re: VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby deepcored » 07 Aug 2018 06:26

just use the http_proxy environment variable:

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$ export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:3128 $ export https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:3128 $ vlc VLC media player 3.0.3 Vetinari (revision 3.0.3-1-0-gc2bb759264) [000055b6bc37d570] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. qt5ct: using qt5ct plugin qt5ct: D-Bus global menu: no qt5ct: D-Bus system tray: no [000055b6bc3814e0] main playlist: playlist is empty [00007f6384007310] mpeg4audio demux packetizer: AAC channels: 2 samplerate: 44100

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Re: VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby gabb7 » 07 Aug 2018 08:35

Thanks, I’ll try

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Re: VLC Player 3.0.0. proxy settings where?

Postby gabb7 » 25 Feb 2019 18:47

this didn't work for me on osx ...
:(

export http_proxy=http://192.168.23.254:3128
export https_proxy=http://192.168.23.254:3128

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC

no go.

proxy works fine:

telnet 192.168.23.254 3128
Trying 192.168.23.254...
Connected to 192.168.23.254.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:44:16 GMT
Via: http/1.1 media-router-fp1013.prod.media.gq1.yahoo.com (ApacheTrafficServer [c s f ])
Server: ATS
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Language: en
...

time to go back to v.2.x


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