URL (was Re: Question about playing TS files)

[Bill Eldridge]

Samuel Hocevar wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002, Xavier Marchesini wrote:
> 
> > >    http://billsmachine.org:8090/testme.vob
> > >
> > > Is this kind of addressing reasonable to provide in vlc? It seems a
> > > little more traditional to me.
> >
> > Sam should be able to answer you. There's an HTTP plugin to vlc, he
> > wrote it. Sam ?
> 
>    Meuuh (who, need I repeat it, got his new Ti this week) wrote the
> HTTP plugin, and it works with the aforementioned syntax.
> 
>    But HTTP streaming is not UDP broadcasting, for instance the server
> port has no real meaning in UDP, whereas the client port is important in
> UDP but not in HTTP. Hence the slightly different syntax.

Yeah, seems slightly strange:

1) I'll test the ffserver with vlc to see how the HTTP goes.
2) Using a normal client URL address, a broadcast client
   would reference something like:

         udpstream://172.30.0.255:1234

   but then that usually says what the server's port is,
   not what the broadcast client should be listening at.
   So how exactly would one go about telling the Web browser
   to launch vlc with something like:

         udpstream://172.30.0.255:@1234

   without getting a bad URL error?



-- 
Bill Eldridge
Radio Free Asia
bill at rfa.org

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