title: Media resource locator
text: # 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://[⟨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://.
  
  