Control VLC via a browser

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Revision as of 00:00, 29 January 2005 by Fkuehne (talk | contribs) (tweaked the syntax once again (please use # for numbering listings))
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  1. Start VLC on the server with VLC -I dummy --extraintf http
  2. If you want to bind VLC to a specific host or port use --http-host host:port
  3. Open your favourite webbrowser on the client
  4. Load VLC http interface from browser with http://host:port (will default to hostname:8080)
  5. Add the files to be streamed to the playlist like /home/file.mpg
  6. Add streaming destination in the sout field udp://<client>:1234
  7. Open VLC on the client, with VLC udp://@:1234