QuickTime Player: “cannot open http://… because it is not a valid URL.” due to pipe character

Question

A URL for a video stream from some news website I'm trying to load contains pipe characters (|). Although this media URL loads fine inside the flash video player of the website, as well as in VLC, QuickTime Player throws this error.

If I remove the pipe character the URL is considered by QTPlayer as valid but it doesn't point to the proper content...

Any ideas how to solve this?

Answer 1

Replace the pipe characters in the URL with the encoded version %7C.

So http://www.name.com/file|place would be http://www.name.com/file%7Cplace.

More info on URL encoding here and here.