Network stream of vlc player not work anymore on whonix nor host, but why?

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I have not money for donate whonix i am sorry, so my thanks again to whonix forums.
-That is writed for anonymous flash videos online with Whonix-
I remember i was use network stream on vlc player inside whonix workstation for watching flash videos online , because adobe flash plugin consider pseudonymous rather anonymous on tbb inside whonix,
i remember that works on whonix workstation and on host to, but last days i try to use it and not work , nor on host ! i try several workaround for days : reinstall vlc , reset to defaults vlc, the last day i download the latest whonix kvm images (clean) * aplyed to the workaround for vlc crash on kvm and nor that works! JDownloader works on whonix workstation for watching flash videos online anonymously but if want to watch a video from the midle to the end for example must wait for downloading , with network stream of vlc player not need to wait for that so its better , but why not work? help please , as that is very important for whonix project, (that need for sites like vimeo, because youtube for example not need adobe flash plugin).

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I speculate, it’s an open research question if streaming (using VLC) may be pseudonymous rather than anonymous also. Haven’t really heard of this and I don’t know any protocol analysis or cleanup tool. I guess downloading the video would leak less data. On the first thought, I would not leak when you pause / resume a video or to which marks you jump.

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I don’t know.

Try this:

Might not be Whonix or VLC issue, just wrong URL.

If that doesn’t work:
search “vlc network stream vimeo”

Or it might be protocol related. http is no problem obviously but rtp doesn’t always play well with Tor (my experience with voip).

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Nothing from there works either.

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Tested… Working (sometimes)

Specific to Vimeo (maybe change title of thread).

Played video successfully 2/3 times. Could not open link on initial attempt. Was the circuit too slow? Timeout? Or maybe vimeocdn.com is blocking Tor exit nodes? Need more tries, different circuits…

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Solution find at last :

  • For first note that is a clean private way and not pseudoprivate , as the vlc streaming inside whonix have not fingerprint protection like TBB , plus must not install flash plugin on TBB , so the solution is : right click on video area , then view page source , inside that file can found the source of video file (other site) then copy and paste to site like http://catchvideo.net and download it from there , as if try to just copy and paste the ususual url video will not work because must is installed adobe flash plugin on TBB to show the source url.
    that’s it .
    My special thanks to Patrick and entr0py