A media resource locator (MRL) is a

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used to uniquely identify and locate a

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resource. It is used by the

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and

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media players, as well as the

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(JMF) API. VLC, for example, supports the following MRLs:. * dvd://[][@][@[][,[][,] * vcd://[][@[ * http://[:]/[] * rtsp://[:]/ Several media players also support Video4Linux as v4l:// and v4l2://.

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