How to Remote Control VLC Player

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The latest versions of VLC contains a web interface that will allow you to access the media player from a web browser or control playback from another device, such as a smartphone. Here's how to activate it. You have installed VLC on your computer connected to your TV or on a screen where you like to watch movies quietly of your couch. Thanks to the integrated web interface, you can control the media player from another computer, a laptop on your lap for example, or with your mobile phone with a web browser. You can easily start your list of players, play a file on the hard drive where you installed VLC, adjust the volume, pause and resume playback, fast forward or rewind a movie or audio file, etc…

Enable Web interface:

You can enable the web interface in the advanced options of VLC. Here is the step by step for doing the same:

• Start VLC by double-clicking its shortcut on the desktop or in the Start menu.
• Click the Tools menu and then Preferences.
• In the Settings box, click All.
• In the left column, click on main interfaces.
• Then check the box Web.
• Finally, click on the Save button.
• Then close VLC and restart

Using the web interface locally:

Now, whenever you start VLC, the associated Web server will run in the background.

• The first time, the Windows firewall or one built into your security suite can display an alert. Enable VLC to be accessible from the network.
• In your Web browser, go to the address http://localhost:8080/
• The web interface of VLC is displayed.
• You can control the playback of your multimedia files.

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Allow remote access:

By default, VLC Web server is not accessible from other computers on your local network. Only the computer where VLC can use the Web interface, which is not practical if you want to control VLC remotely in case of use in home theater for example. You'll have to edit the configuration files from the server to specify the IP addresses allowed to access the Web interface using computers.

• First of all make sure VLC is not running.
• Now click Start button, click All Programs, click Accessories, and right on Notepad icon. Select Run as administrator.
• Click the File menu and then click Open.
• In the Open window, navigate to C: \ Program Files (x86) \ VideoLAN \ VLC \ lua \ http with a 64-bit Windows or C: \ Program Files \ VideoLAN \ VLC \ lua \ http for 32-bit Windows .
• Scroll down the list text files (*. Txt) and select All files (*. *).
• Then select the file. Hosts and click the Open button.
• At the end of the file add on separate IP addresses of the computers and devices that will have access to VLC lines.
• Finally, save your changes by clicking File and then click Save File. Close Notepad.

Using the Web interface:

Now that you have configured the IP addresses of computers, smartphones and tablets are authorized to access the web interface of VLC, you can exploit it. Note that VLC must be running on the computer "source".

• On your device, open the web browser and go to the address http://192.168.1.99:8080 replacing 192.168.1.99 with the IP address of the computer where VLC.
• This also works on a tablet or smartphone.
• You have access to reading lists that you have recorded. Click on a file to open it. You can also click on the Open button and select media on the hard drive of the computer where VLC, the file to read.
• The media file is played on the computer where VLC.