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I am using VLC 0.8.5 for Win32.

I might be a bit of a newbie, but I cannot seem to get the web interface working.

A simple question: if I select Settings --> Add Interface --> Web Interface, then is there supposed to be another screen appearing, or is there a tick mark supposed to appear next to the words "Web Interface" in the menu ? As far as I can see, nothing at all happens.

In any event, I cannot get anything to appear in my browser when viewing http://localhost:8080.

Does anyone have any tips for me please ?

Thanks very much

I have the same problem with VLC 0.8.5!(XPSP2)

When i first time installed with VLC 0.8.5 everything was fine. I was able to access the web interface. But now when i enter http://localhost:8080 in firefox or 127.0.0.1:8080 in IE i get nothing. The web interface is not showing even if is enabled in settings.
I also noticed that in HTTP section of settings the port is 8081. I changed to :8080, but the next time i start the player and enter the settings - again :8081.
I tried with uninstalling and reinstalling, even with restoring system to an earlier time, butt still nothing.

Please help me!

A simple question: if I select Settings --> Add Interface --> Web Interface, then is there supposed to be another screen appearing, or is there a tick mark supposed to appear next to the words "Web Interface" in the menu ? As far as I can see, nothing at all happens.

No, nothing is supposed to happen here. You just need to open your browser and go to http://localhost:8080.

So, if you get nothing in your browser, do you get an error instead? If so, what error is it?

And this problem could come from a bad setting in your preferences. I would recommend you to reset them using "vlc --reset-config" from a command line, and then try again.

When I open my browser and go to http://localhost:8080 (or 127.0.0.1:8080) the message swows up - "The page cannot be displayed".
Also I tried with setting prefferences to default, but that does not help.

Hmm, very strange...

Could you please open the View -> Messages... panel, then activate the Web Interface, and paste what you get in the Messages panel?

Currently I am not at home. I will check and post the message here.

main error: cannot pre fill buffer

I noticed when i originally tried the web interface that I couldn't find the page anyway I used Sysinternals TCP view to see which port it was listening on and it was actually 8085. I later found this in one of the config files in the program dir so you may want to check which port is actually configured.

Thank you Morpheus!
I solved my problem

i can use ok
but if i use the web browser show me: open file -- or -- save file and if i use open... dont show, just open like download.