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I can get VLC and RC going both on same PC... ditto for telnet...

But... I want VLC running on PC1 and to be able to Remote Control it from PC2 on the same in-house network...

1 - For RC must you have telnet server enabled on the host PC ?

2 - What command line to start on Host PC ?

3 - What command line to start on RC PC ?

4 - Can you launch VLC on the Host PC from the RC PC? If so what command line?

Thanks for any help.

Would someone be kind enough to help out here. I want to run vlc on one PC and control it from another PC. (both on the lame local network)

I wanted to use VLC RC/Remote Control as opposed to telnet as I understand it is more advanced and telnet is not secure...

I've attempted to follow the instructions here: http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html

As I read it you launch vlc on one PC using... VLC --extraintf rc

then on the other PC it seems to say use this command line... --rc-host localhost:port

from which I tried... VLC --rc host 192.168.1.104 4212 (where 192.168.1.104 is the ip address of the computer running VLC)

I also tried... VLC --rc host 192.168.1.104:4212 but got the same result... VLC can't parse the command... or some such...

Thanks for any help.



But VLC can't parse that so I'm reading the instructions wrong I guess... also am not sure of the port number.

(I used port 4212 as that is what works for using telnet to control vlc in the case where VLC is on the same computer as the telnet client)