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We just launched a beta of VLC Streamer for Android. VLC Streamer lets you sit anywhere in your house, and stream movies from your Mac/PC to your Android. During the beta, you get the full functionality for free. Please report any bugs or issues at our forum You can get it here:
In the olden days, there were two versions of VLC Remote, one for the iPhone and one for the iPad. That made sense to me when the iPad was new, and it took me a lot of work to build iPad support, but it doesn’t seem right any more. As a result, VLC Remote will
The new iPad version is nearly ready (hopefully two to three weeks until launch) If you’re a blogger, tech writer, or reviewer then I’d love to get you a beta copy to review. Please email me : rob@hobbyistsoftware.com
Update: VLC 2.0.3 has been released for Mac OS now – please update to this if you are getting fullscreen control problems. —- Mac users: If you updated to VLC 2.0.2, then you’ll notice that there is a bug with the fullscreen control. The http interface (which VLC Remote uses) simply isn’t working for fullscreen.
Videolan released VLC 2.0.2 today. If you update VLC, then VLC Remote will crash. — Update, the VLC Remote update has been approved, so please update to 6.0.2 and all should be well. — I have submitted a fix to Apple, but as ever, it’ll take about a week for them to approve it. In
2.90 brings YouTube videos to VLC Remote on Android. To use the feature, just tap on the normal browse icon, then tap on the TV icon in the browsing toolbar. Now you can browse YouTube within VLC Remote for your favourite video. When you have the one you want to share, press the play icon
so, new VLC Remote, new design. inevitably, there were some decisions to be made about what controls should be there, and how to present them. My goal was to make VLC Remote easy to use, but with powerful features readily accessible. Or in the wonderful words of Einstein – ‘As simple as possible, but no
VLC Remote 6.00 is a major new release with lots of new features. It just went live in the App Store. It does require VLC 2.00 to work, and it requires a device running iOS 4.00 or higher. With such a major update, there will probably be some minor issues that need to be fixed
If you have multiple monitors connected to a mac, then this might interest you. I just launched my first app in the Mac Appstore. It’s called Multi Monitor Wallpaper. It lets you take one large image and apply it across your monitors. You can move and scale the image, and even tweak the exact layout
If you’d like to test the new VLC Remote, and you can spare time to give regular rebuilds a thorough test and write feedback, then please let me know. Please email me at rob at hobbyistsoftware dot com – let me know 1) what devices you have, 2) why you’ll be a good tester. I
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