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:

• dvd://[][@][@[][,[][,]]]
• vcd://[][@{E|P|E|T|S}[]]
• <nowiki>http://</nowiki>[:]/[]
• rtsp://[:]/

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

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