Implementing a VLC remote

[Lucius9]

Hello everybody.

I intend to implement my own VLC remote on Android. I read the documentation of VLC but I still have some questions.

I want my remote to discover the computers that are running vlc. I am thinking about using the UPnP protocol and I know that VLC is only a UPnP client. Actually I would like to know if VLC is advertising on the network its services and it is possible to retrieve an XML file that contains the URL of its services. The service I want to get is the URL of the HTTP Interface.