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Is an iOS app that lets you use your Mac whether you’re sitting in front of it or not. Whether you’re running a Mac as a media center or just want to launch apps or control system settings on your Mac when you’re doing something else, Remote Control for Mac makes the process simple. One of the greatest use cases for Remote for Mac is controlling a Mac that serves as a media center. A Mac mini makes a great media server, but it’s not comfortable to sit on the couch with a keyboard and trackpad or mouse. Remote Control for Mac cuts through the complications making it easy to control your media center.
Just install a helper app on your Mac and use Remote Control for Mac to control system settings like volume and apps and services like iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, YouTube, Plex, Kodi, SoundCloud, Spotify, and VLC. Remote for Mac isn’t just for Mac media centers though. The uses are only limited by your imagination. You can just as easily use the app to browse the web or read email on a Mac connected to your TV. Using the app’s keyboard and virtual trackpad makes navigation a breeze. When you’re finished, Remote for Mac can turn off your display or shut down your Mac too.
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Activating the Web Interface To activate the web interface, click the Tools menu in VLC and select Preferences. Click the All option under Show settings to view VLC’s advanced settings. Scroll down in the list of advanced settings and select Main interfaces under the Interface header. Click the Web check box to enable the HTTP interface.
Save your settings and restart VLC. Each time you start VLC, the web server will be started in the background – Windows will prompt you to allow VLC firewall access when you restart it, indicating that the web server is running. Click the following link or plug its address into your browser to access the VLC web interface on your local computer: If you’re using VLC 2.0.1, certain elements of the web interface – the seek bar in particular — may not work properly. This is a bug in version 2.0.1 that isn’t present in 2.0.0 and has been fixed for version 2.0.2. VLC 2.0.0 includes a new web interface that replaces the old one – hopefully it will see more polish in future versions. Allowing Remote Access By default, the web interface is completely locked down – it’s restricted to localhost, which means you can only access it from the machine VLC is running on. You’ll see a 403 Forbidden error page if you try to access VLC’s HTTP server from any other device.
To allow access from other computers, you’ll have to edit the web interface’s.hosts file. You’ll find this file in different directories on different operating systems:. Windows – C: Program Files (x86) VideoLAN VLC lua http (use “Program Files” instead of “Program Files (x86)” on 32-bit versions of Windows.). Mac OS X – /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/http/.hosts. Linux – /usr/share/vlc/lua/http/.hosts To edit this file on Windows, you’ll have to open Notepad – or another text editor – as Administrator. Browse to the folder mentioned above and select “All Files” in Notepad’s open dialog to view the.hosts file. You can uncomment the last two lines (to uncomment a line, remove the # at the beginning of the line) to allow access from all IP addresses, but the file notes this isn’t completely safe.
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You could also allow a range of IP addresses – or specify the IP address of each other device you want to allow here (add each IP address on a separate line). Save the file and restart VLC after making the change. Using the Web Interface Plug into a web browser on an allowed computer or smartphone to view VLC’s web interface. Replace the “123.456.7.89” in the address with the IP address of the computer running VLC. If you need to find your computer’s IP address, you can use the ipconfig command in a Command Prompt window. Look for the IPv4 Address row under the name of your connection. If you also want to access VLC’s web interface over the Internet instead of your local network, you’ll have to.