Monday, April 28, 2008

Using vlc with a proxy on windows

Googling "vlc proxy windows" does not immediately give me what I want. I did find this page, but allow me to give you a digest of it with a couple of suggestions:

1. right click the "VLC media player" icon on your desktop
2. Properties
3. add the following to the Target (outside of the quotes)
 --http-proxy=my.proxy.com:8080
4. Apply
5. Ok.

NOTE: there should be a space between the Target and the "--http-proxy=my.proxy.com:8080" Mine looks like this:
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" --http-proxy=my.companys.proxy.com:8080
Or if you like the command line, try:
vlc.exe http://my.video.com/some/random/stream.avi --http-proxy=my.proxy.com:8080
Hope that helps.
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24 comments:

  1. AnonymousMonday, August 18, 2008

    Thank you for this useful tip!

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  2. AnonymousFriday, October 24, 2008

    Very good ! Very Very Good !!!

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  3. Vitaliy ObmanyukMonday, February 09, 2009

    Cool :) It works. Thanks!

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  4. AnonymousThursday, February 12, 2009

    Thanks for this - great tip. Spent hours wading through tonnes of rubbish before this worked perfectly.

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  5. AnonymousTuesday, March 03, 2009

    Works fine, thanks!!

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  6. AnonymousWednesday, March 25, 2009

    Thank you very much for this helpful tip.

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  7. UnknownWednesday, May 13, 2009

    i need to login to my proxy, whats the syntax to add those details?

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  8. Vernon SingletonWednesday, May 13, 2009

    --http-proxy=<string>

    HTTP proxy to be used It must be of the form http://[user@]myproxy.com:myport/

    --http-proxy-pwd=<string>

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  9. AnonymousTuesday, May 26, 2009

    Thanks for this tip.

    Worked well for me, I used the following to work with my proxy:

    --http-proxy=username:password@my.proxy.com:8080

    Cheers =)

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  10. UnknownThursday, November 19, 2009

    Thanx - this really was helpful!

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  11. meuledorFriday, November 27, 2009

    But how to set a username with space like

    --http-proxy=http://foo bar@myproxy.mydomain.com

    ?

    Thx in advance.

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  12. AnonymousTuesday, February 16, 2010

    vsingleton.blogspot.com; You saved my day again.

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  13. UnknownSaturday, March 20, 2010

    hi, can anyone tell me what does this command do??
    thanks a lot

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  14. AnonymousFriday, March 26, 2010

    Google put me there and... thank you for solving my problem! :)

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  15. AnonymousWednesday, April 28, 2010

    Hi also via google big thank's...

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  16. AnonymousWednesday, June 02, 2010

    ...or open VLC->Preferences->Input&Codecs and in the field proxy type this:

    http://user:pass@your.proxy.com:

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  17. AnonymousWednesday, July 21, 2010

    thank you

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  18. AdamidonSunday, August 08, 2010

    if i'm using a proxy software like freegate and such, how should i do it? bcause in my web browser, the http proxy part is only replaced with "localhost" and the port is configured with the port given by the software. hope u can help. thank you very much ^^

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  19. AnonymousThursday, October 07, 2010

    Thanks a lot for the handy tip!

    I think setting the http_proxy environment variable in windows should also work. That way one can double click a playlist file (containing a HTTP link) directly instead of opening it from VLC started using the modified shortcut.

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  20. AnonymousTuesday, February 15, 2011

    Excelent advice Vernon! Thank you! The only thing that bugs me is that you have to get the link and introduce it into the VLC!

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  21. Lucas.GTuesday, April 05, 2011

    Thanks a lot! But why the heck they did not add an option in the settings somewhere? O.o

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  22. AnonymousSaturday, July 23, 2011

    And on Mac OS X, from a Terminal window, something like this works:
    $ open /Applications/VLC.app --args --http-proxy=my.proxy.net:8080

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  23. AnonymousWednesday, August 03, 2011

    Thanks a lot!!!

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  24. AnonymousSaturday, October 15, 2011

    great!!! So many thanks!!!!

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