UDP streaming or not - protocols? Support?

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Hi all



I have had somewhat success with getting Plex to play a video stream in the form udp://@vvv.xxx.yyy.zzz:pppp/ with the old VideoItem object.

However it is very unstable an the Plex client tends to crash.



It leads me to think that since it CAN work then Plex must have some sort of support of UDP streaming.



However when I look in the new API reference - it seems that Plex only supports the following protocols



Protocol.Shoutcast<br />
Protocol.WebKit<br />
Protocol.HTTPMP4Video<br />
Protocol.HTTPVideo<br />
Protocol.RTMP<br />
Protocol.HTTPLiveStreaming<br />
Protocol.HTTPMP4Streaming


And looking in the API reference I can find any hints pointing me to believe that Plex supports an MPEG TS.

So my question is ... to what level does Plex have UDP streaming support? Why does it work at all?

Regards
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The only support for UDP streaming is in the Plex desktop client, not Plex Media Server. It is a remnant of XBMC code which is not supported and may break or be removed at any time. Any plugin code that makes use of it will be unstable at best, and unusable on any platform other than the desktop client (Laika).

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