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I'm running a VLC on Mac OS X Yosemite and I want to control it over phone via home WiFi network. I configured remote interface on VLC following the instructions found on the net:

  1. The web interface is active
  2. The password is set
  3. I can access the VLC web interface locally by going to: http://localhost:8080/ as explained in the instructions
  4. When I run a designated application, like VLC Remote, it correctly shows the local IP of the Mac that is running the VLC with the web interface active. Furthermore, the app connects to that Mac/VLC with no problems.

Problem

I would like to access the mobile web interface that VLC appears to have on a Safari browser on the iPhone without any additional app but when I type my local IP address and port in format http://X.X.X.X:8080, the Safari page stays blank and does not load.

Summing up:

  1. VLC web interface appears to be running as I can access it on the same mac that I'm running VLC
  2. I can connect to the remote VLC web interface via a designed iPhone app (tested with VLC Remote)
  3. I can't connect to the remote VLC web interface via a phone browser

Needles to say, I'm very much interested in addressing the third point. Any suggestions on what to do what to check will be much appreciated.

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  • you need to encode URLs that we need to be able to read rather than click using backticks, otherwise you get 127.0.0.1 when you want us to be able to actually read http://127.0.0.1 [seems to be impossible to show you a backtick in comments, see my edit on your post for the styling]
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Dec 19, 2015 at 22:39
  • @Tetsujin The URLs were only examples, I didn't want to share any particular address.
    – Konrad
    Commented Dec 19, 2015 at 22:41
  • but we cannot read them. put backticks round to show examples. Like we cannot read your comment because the automatic encoding kills what you wrote & makes it a clickable link instead
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Dec 19, 2015 at 22:42
  • @Tetsujin No problem, it seems it was edited already.
    – Konrad
    Commented Dec 19, 2015 at 22:43
  • Yes. I edited your post, but still no-one can tell what you actually wrote in your comment, because of the auto-encoding. Hence, the backticks...
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Dec 19, 2015 at 22:44

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