VLC URLs

#Media Resource Locator All media played through libvlc are identified by their Media Resource Locator, or MRL. MRLs are a super-set of URLs, and include media-specific protocol schemes.

Available schemes are:

Scheme	Example	Comment
file	file:///path/file	Plain media file
http	http://host[:port]/file	HTTP URL
ftp	ftp://host[:port]/file	FTP URL
mms	mms://host[:port]/file	MMS URL
screen	screen://	Screen capture
dvd	dvd://[device]	DVD device
dvdsimple	dvdsimple://[device]	DVD device with no menus
vcd	vcd://[device]	VCD device
cdda	cdda://[device]	Audio CD device
udp	udp://[[<source address>]@[<bind address>][:<bind port>]]	UDP stream sent by a streaming server