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Media resource locator

URI for multimedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A media resource locator (MRL) is a URI used to uniquely identify and locate a multimedia resource. It is used by the VideoLAN and Xine media players, as well as the Java Media Framework (JMF) API.

VLC, for example, supports the following MRLs:[1]

  • dvd://[device][@raw device][@[title][,[chapter][,angle]]]
  • vcd://[device][@{E|P|E|T|S}[number]]
  • http://server address[:server port]/[file]
  • rtsp://server address[:server port]/stream name

Several media players also support Video4Linux as v4l:// and v4l2://.

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