Media resource locator

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://.

References
  1. "Media resource locator", Wiki, VideoLAN.


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