Control your VLC from an Android device. No need to get up from the couch.
How many times have you been comfortably watching a movie from the couch only to find out you forgot the subtitles? How about being snugly tucked under a blanket, only to find out you need to brave the cold of winter just to add a new episode of your latest binge-watching series? Yeah, that can easily ruin your day.
Worry no more: with VlcFreemote you can now install a tiny Android app to control your VLC server.
There are a few VLC remote controls out there. I think this is the only once that's open source (not 100% sure). It has some nice extra features I haven't found in other remote controls too:
- Remembers which files you have already played
- Automagic movie-skip (jump forward by a percentage of the file length, much more useful than it sounds!)
- Bookmark management.
- An extra compact layout, specially useful for phones.
- Other small things probably not even worth mentioning. In the future, whenever I get some free time, I'd like to add the ability to start VLC automatically from SSH, a feature I would use a lot and I have seen nowhere else.
Mostly cause I'm lazy and cheap. Getting a Google Play account costs 10 dollars or so, and I'm too lazy and too cheap to get one. Want me to upload it to Google Play? Feel free to buy me a beer. If not you can just get the APK from Github, or download the source code and build it yourself.
Bug reports are always welcome. Code contributions even more so! You should fork the repo as described here: http://help.github.com/fork-a-repo/
VlcFreemote Copyright 2015-2016 Nicolas Brailovsky
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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- Auto start Vlc if shutdown when an ssh server is present
- Add widget to control Vlc from a "desktop" (?) widget
- Idem for lock screen?
- Control remote Vlc volume from local volume key
- Publish apk to store