Very newbie question: how do I tell if minimstreamer is runnng?

[nickc]

Sorry for the delay in replying - only just getting back up to speed after three days without power following storm Ciaràn!

I'm running VLC on a Linux desktop (Manjaro Gnome) and entering the stream URL directly into VLC. I did this in order to discover the exact specifications of the stream. I'm assuming that the stream has identical properties when it's being accessed by MinimStreamer running on a RaspberryPI, and hence my question; but perhaps my assumption is wrong and it's a dynamic relationship between a stream source server and a local server accessing it, so the specs of the steam received locally could vary? As you can probably tell, I'm at the limits of my understanding of these things!