The ability to customize the URL for MMSH streams has been removed (VLC Win32 ver-2.1.0)
It seems that VLC player for Windows, between version 2.0.8 and 2.1.0 something was removed by the development team, namely the ability to customize the URL of an MMSH stream. After selecting all the parameters from the dialog boxes for streaming and transcoding, you get to a dialog box that allowed you to customize the params for streaming and it shows all the parameters as a command line, one of which is the URL. You used to be able to change this from 0.0.0.0:8080 to 0.0.0.0:8080/output.asf (assign to the stream what I would call a "pseudo filename"). You are no longer able to do so. When you make that change now, it ignores the /output.asf part (the pseudo filenam" and streams as just 0.0.0.0:8080. The problem with this is that some software that is designed to record ASF streams over MMS will expect the last 4 symbols of the URL to be ".asf" because it uses the file extension to determine if the right type of stream has been selected (if the file extension is anything other than ".asf" ".wmv" or ".wma" it refuses to record and gives an error about not being an ASF stream). To make my streams compatible with that (and possibly other) software, I have chosen to use pseudo filenames for my streams, and make sure they end in ".asf". Because this feature (as of version 2.1.0) has now been removed (whether intentionally or unintentionally) it reduces functionality of VLC player, and as such I consider it to be a bug. Hence my bug report. Because it is not merely a bug, but a bug that removes previously existing functionality (and a functionality that I consider very important for streaming over MMSH), I consider the priority to fix it (to bring back the previously existing functionality) to be a priority of "high" and a severity of "major". Hence me setting the dropdown lists as such (not sure if the developers will agree, but that's how I feel about this bug).