YES!!!! I managed to beat vodafone.. I have managed to get the stream to open in VLC by tunnelling rtsp over http. I compared the address used by the iphone stream, saw that it is an HTTP connection using port 1935. I also read up on the vlc documentation and found that it could tunnel rtsp connections over http - therefore sidestepping the blanket ban imposed by vodafone. So.. Using the port and the tunnelling i tried the following command in dbus-switchboard: Code: cvlc --play-and-exit --rtsp-http --rtsp-http-port=1935 --key-quit=q "%params2%" This tells vlc to quit if it cannot connect, otherwise it stays running in the background doing nothing, tells it to use the Q key to quit (same as mplayer), and tells it to tunnel rtsp over http port 1935 I can say for certain this plays back even better than before.
cvlc --play-and-exit --rtsp-http --rtsp-http-port=1935 --key-quit=q "%params2%"