Media Resource Locator
Encyclopedia
A media resource locator (MRL) is a URI
Úri
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 used to uniquely identify and locate a multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

 resource. It is used by the VideoLAN
VideoLAN
VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats across a local area network . It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client and VideoLAN Server , but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result...

 and Xine
Xine
xine is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. xine is built around a shared library that supports different frontend player applications. Another important feature of xine is the ability to manually correct the synchronization...

 media players, as well as by the Java Media Framework
Java Media Framework
The Java Media Framework is a Java library that enables audio, video and other time-based media to be added to Java applications and applets...

 (JMF) API.

VLC, for example, supports the following MRLs:
  • dvd://[][@][@[][,[<chapter>][,<angle>]]]</li> <li> vcd://[<device>][@{E|P|E|T|S}[<number>]]</li> <li> <NOWIKI>http://<server address>[:<server port>]/[<file>]</NOWIKI></li> <li> rtsp://<server address>[:<server port>]/<stream name></li></ul> <br /> <br /> Several media players also support <a class='greylink1' onMouseover='ShowPop("23925",this,"noimage.gif", event)' onMouseout='HidePop("23925")' href="/topics/Video4Linux">Video4Linux</a><span class="hp" id="m23925"><div class="hpHeader">Video4Linux</div><div class="hpContent">Video4Linux or V4L is a video capture application programming interface for Linux. Many USB webcams, TV tuners, and other devices are supported. Video4Linux is closely integrated with the Linux kernel. Video4Linux was named after Video for Windows , but is not technically related to it.- V4L2 :V4L2...</div><br></span> as v4l:// and v4l2:// MRLs. <div class="article-reference">The source of this article is <a class='greylink1' href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Resource_Locator">wikipedia</a>, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the <a class='greylink1' href='/gfdl'>GFDL</a>.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <a href="http://www.silverdaleinteractive.com/">Silverdale Interactive</a> © 2024. All Rights Reserved. </div> </div> <div class="opacity-panel"> </div> <!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --><div class="dialog-wrapper"> <div id="dialog1" class="dialog-pane"> <div onclick="CloseDialog()" class="close-dialog button">x</div> <img class="dialog-logo" src="/images/logo.png" /> <div class="line"></div> <div id="dialog-panel"> <div class="dialog-title"></div> <div class="dialog-content"></div> <div class="ok-button-wrapper"><div onclick="CloseDialog()" class="ok-button">OK</div></div> </div> </div> </div> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-395964-1"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag() { dataLayer.push(arguments); } gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'UA-395964-1'); </script> </body> </html>