Control VLC via a browser
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- Start VLC on the server with VLC -I dummy --extraintf http
- If you want to bind VLC to a specific host or port use --http-host host:port
- Open your favourite webbrowser on the client
- Load VLC http interface from browser with http://host:port (will default to hostname:8080)
- Add the files to be streamed to the playlist like /home/file.mpg
- Add streaming destination in the sout field udp://<client>:1234
- Open VLC on the client, with VLC udp://@:1234