diff --git a/src/host/wayland.rs b/src/host/wayland.rs
index bb30d0e..9459630 100644
--- a/src/host/wayland.rs
+++ b/src/host/wayland.rs
@@ -225,8 +225,15 @@ async fn serve_capture(listener: TcpListener, mut gst_stdout: ChildStdout) {
         return;
     }
 
+    // Content-Type intentionally application/octet-stream, not video/mp2t.
+    // VLC eagerly maps video/mp2t to demux="ts" and bypasses content
+    // probing; its ts demuxer's Open then fails on the live HTTP stream
+    // with "no demux modules matched" and the input never opens. With a
+    // non-video Content-Type, VLC falls back to byte-probing, which finds
+    // the TS sync pattern and opens cleanly. mpv probes regardless of
+    // Content-Type, so it's unaffected.
     const RESPONSE: &[u8] = b"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\
-        Content-Type: video/mp2t\r\n\
+        Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\
         Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store\r\n\
         Connection: close\r\n\
         \r\n";