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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