


+ With this Remote App, You don't need to install any software on your PC or Mac! (or alternatively, install our helper app, VMR Connect to your PC/Mac for easy setup) VLC Mobile Remote App lets you control VLC Media Player on your desktop or laptop and allows you to browse, play your computer files as well as YouTube videos. Works well with VLC running on both Desktops & Laptops based Windows, Mac OS or Linux. Just install the app, sit back, relax and remotely control VLC Player, Netflix, YouTube and Amazon Prime and more from the couch. If you watch movies and videos offline or online on your computers, this VLC M Remote gives you the awesome power to control VLC Media Player wherever you're seated, whether in the kitchen or in the garden.

VLC Mobile Remote is the most convenient way of controlling VLC Player from your smartphones and tablets. Meet VLC media player’s most compatible, up-to-date and user-friendly partner-VLC Mobile Remote for Android. Groping in the dark for keyboard shortcuts whilst watching a movie or racing to your computer in the middle of a steamy date just to change the music track? well, you'll no longer have to do that. But now the simplest Remote for VLC is also a complete PC Remote & Mac Remote app. It's powerful stuff.The simplest Remote for VLC you'll ever find.

And, even if you don't (yet) have a use for the remote, do give VLC a spin. It would be cool if future releases mirrored more of the VLC key commands - e.g., I've gotten very fast at CTRL-CMD-left arrow for a TiVo-like instant replay - but this has been performing solidly for me, and it just might scratch an itch that you have too. Just tell the controlling Mac what the IP address of the movie-running Mac is and to which port it should send the commands ("8080" should work fine), and presto: your laptop turns into a $3000 remote for your $3000 PVR. This is a very simple, (currently beta) Dashboard widget that lets me access the VLC controls on a Mac over my local network via a second Mac that's sitting on my lap. To the rescue comes VLC Remote Interface Widget. This works like a champ, but, if I want to pause or fast-forward the movie, I have to haul my lazy ass over to the Mac to do so. It's free, open source, frequently updated, and seems to have no trouble running most every kind of video I've thrown at it.Ĭurrently, one way I use VLC is to play movies on an old (pre-IR remote) PowerBook that's S-video'd up to our TV. Here's Merlin's pick for this week's episode)įor my money, VLC Media Player is the coolest OS X digital video player out there. (On each MacBreak Weekly, guests choose a "Pick of the Week" - a piece of software or hardware, a web site, or just a cool trick - that they want to share with the audience.
