VLC Media Player Plans to Add Online Media Streaming

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But it has had networking capabilities for like... ever? RTSP, HTTP, ...

It also supports some funky stuff like raw H.264 over UDP if you use ffmpeg to prepend special packets to the start of the video stream (Ideal for a DIY low latency video streaming solution ). If you decrypt digital OTA tv signals (DVB format), VLC will play the live underlying raw mpeg stream just fine.

Truly a swiss army knife of video playback, especially the underutilized network url file open option

I mean it is right there in the name: Video Lan Client.

My first use of VLC 20yrs ago was to stream video. it is the core of the product.

Idk about that. I don't even care much cuz I don't use VLC at all. Lol I just wanted to send a regular short controversial unpopular opinion comment. I hope it's not considered wrong here