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://.