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[EVO 4G General] sw99:
Followed the above instructions.

I can remotely control VLC, but I can't seem to get the video to run. I configured the port to 5554 and 554 (with the appropriate router changes). I also configured these ports in Windows Firewall.

I get an error stating: "Too Many Errors"

Don't know if this matters, but it is running on a Windows Home Server machine.
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
As a troubleshooting step can you stream within your local network? Meaning don't try to connect via 3g, use the local ip address of the home server and connect within your local home network wifi. That will tell us if the issue is router/Sprint network related configuration issue.
[EVO 4G General] sw99:
One more thing that should be pointed out.

You are giving the entire Internet access to your files. Developer suggests that you limit your router access to your IP address, but I found that Sprint changes your IP address on a regular basis.

Wish VLC would implement some sort of security on their end.
[EVO 4G General] hkkmr:
I had to use port 554 but video playback is choppy for some reason over wifi or 3g.
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
^^ yeah, the security thing sucks. One solution would be to relay it via VPN but that would add a bunch of overhead. It wouldn't be too hard to write your own file browser interface with an RTSP relay, but alas who has the time....

What are the specs of the computer you're running VLC on? Might be due to it not being powerful to encode certain videos on the fly.

I have it running on a pretty beefy machine. Core i7 920 overlclocked to 3.9ghz, and I can trans code 1080p MKVs with no choppiness.
[EVO 4G General] hkkmr:
It's older pc, Core 2 Duo 8400.
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
That's still a pretty darn good processor. What's your CPU usage at when streaming videos?
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Working good for me on Wifi on the local network but not when I try to connect externally. I have all the appropriate ports forwarded and it acts like it's playing.. But I get no video. No errors.. Just no video.
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
What bitrate / horizontal width set to? How fast is your 3G connection? I usually have to wait about 10 or seconds before the video starts playing over 3G. Until then it's just black.
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
It's working fine for me now that I'm outside of my local network. It just wasn't working when I was on my local network and trying to connect with an external IP. Dunno why
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
Ah, probably due to loopback being off on your router. Quite common.
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
Bumping to say I just tested this with the HDMI cable and it works fine! There's some serious nerd cred to be able stream and trascode videos on the fly over the Internet and into someone's big screen TV via your phone.
[EVO 4G General] louforgiveno:
Nice !!!, i didn't even think to try
[EVO 4G General] fenixjn:
Very nice find OP, I have been trying to set this up for a while and failed everytime I tried to connect via browser (pointing to the sdp would give me a Video cannot be played error). This works flawlessly. Has anyone tried this over 4G?
[EVO 4G General] mrono:
Mine doesn't like to stream over 3G, the bandwidth isn't there or something. The videos are all blurred and choppy, over wifi local network it works fine. I tried dropping my settings way down too and it's still really bad.
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
Two things to check is your speed at 3g (download the speedtest.net app from market place to find out) and cpu usage of vlc.exe while streaming.

On a side note, I bought the donate/pro version and found the optimal bitrate for 640 resolution over wifi was about 1500, looks really nice on my evo at that bitrate. I tried 2000 bitrate but I got tearing artifacts during playback .
[EVO 4G General] donloki:
Don't forget to turn on the WiFi antennae even if you aren't on a WiFi network. The WiFi has to be on.
[EVO 4G General] cartoonmonkey:
Where did you get your HDMI cable? I just got this working, and I'm blown away. Excellent!

For those concerned about security, spend the cash on Xtralogic's Remote Desktop Client. With your router / port forwarding set up correctly, you can just log into your box from anywhere, and launch VLC on demand from the desktop. Shut it off when you don't need it.

The combo of these two apps, along with Subsonic, gives total control! Can't wait to try it out on a friend's HDTV using wimax and the HDMI out cable..

Very very cool!

:D
[EVO 4G General] hkkmr:
I think it was some firewall/filtering software on the wifi network I was on. I went to my local lan and it was perfect, so was 3g when I got above 700 bitrate.
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
You can either get an MicroHDMI adapter to HDMI adapter and use your own HDMI cable with it, here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-HDMI-HDMI...968?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b48ecd18

Or if you don't want to buy/use a regular HDMI cable, then you can buy a Micro-HDMI to regular size HDMI cable in various lengths here:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10253&cs_id=1025301
[EVO 4G General] xdadevel:
Tried streaming over 3G via VPN? Works great!

traveldevel.com/vlc-stream-convert/streaming-over-vpn
[EVO 4G General] Ghettobob:
Thanks OP and TalynOne for helping me. I finally got this to work!!! I really appreciate this. Thank you.
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Has anyone done the new VPN setup shown on his site? http://traveldevel.com/vlc-stream-convert/streaming-over-vpn

I was going to do it but I get stuck here;

How do we know what IP to use that is assigned to the device when it always changes? Especially if you aren't on your local network.
[EVO 4G General] TalynOne:
The above instructions are setting up an explicit assignment for the local computer VPN interface the IP that gets assigned to your EVO 4g (the device connecting to your VPN server).

A number starting with 192.168 is a local number range, meaning it has no meaning/visibility on the Internet, only in local networks. The main purpose of a VPN is to connecting to your local LAN as if you were connecting a physical cable into your home networks' switch. You should make sure to pick a number that won't conflict with IP addresses in your local LAN.

I would suggest just to try it and ask questions if something doens't work.

I would also suggest other sources for VPN help, it's a pretty big topic to go on a tangent about.

I'm hoping to set up my EVO 4G with an OpenVPN client since I already have an OpenVPN server and it's supposed to be more reliable/faster than PPTP based VPNs.
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Ah, gotcha. Gonna set it up right now. Be back shortly. Thanks for the help.
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Got it all connected. Only getting audio and no video for some reason though. It attempts to play with rtsp and the audio plays just fine but the video just never starts.

Edit; Changed nothing... Waited about 10 minutes and tried again and now it's working fine. Sweet.
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
So after more testing. I can stream video about half the time. Sometimes it works fine and other times I can just get audio. I think I'm going to just go back to the old method for now, which always worked great.

I also have problems sometimes being able to disconnect from VPN. I'll click to disconnect and it just won't let me. Stupid phone.
[EVO 4G General] Straussberg:
It used to work perfectly, but ever since they locked out features for the paid version, I've been having really big issues. Now, I can't even stream anything: I get the error "Cannot create play command!" every time I try on systems that worked fine in the past.

Anyone know where to download the old versions from?
[EVO 4G General] xdadevel:
Try to set Player Mode from the app menu before starting playback.

Seems to be a bug.
[EVO 4G General] rockon83:
I've been scouring the internet all day trying to get this to work.

If I go to 192.168.1.104:8080/requests/status.xml from my android phone I can read the name of the video playing and other info.

When I run VLC Stream and Convert, it says Connected to VLC, shows the video file that is playing, allows me to browse additional files, but says "Cannot open 192.168.1.104:5554" and then "Too Many Errors" and no video will play.

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'm connecting via wifi within my LAN. Any thoughts?

Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] SorryGoFish:
I've tried over 4G, but I get rejected. I have a working setup over WiFi and 3G, but it does not work over 4G. This may be because my home server is itself on the same 4G network (through Clear). I think there may be some confusion about IP addresses.
[EVO 4G General] adrianwallis:
I'm also having this problem. I can connect fine, browse files, and even play/pause and change the volume, but as soon as I start trying to stream it says it "cannot connect".
[EVO 4G General] theundeadelvis:
Very cool app! Now I just need to figure out the best way to configure things for optimal security.
[EVO 4G General] sw99:
Just curious, has anyone been able to get the EVO's VPN working? From what I understand, since Android 2.2 the VPN will connect but not pass any traffic.
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Works fine for me on CM and Myns
[EVO 4G General] theundeadelvis:
Can anyone shed any light on the proper way to edit the browse.xml file so you can only browse your media directory and not your entire pc?
[EVO 4G General] temasek:
I am trying to play rmvb video and there seems to be no audio. Video streaming looks alrite. Is vlc unable to play rmvb with audio or I am not setting it right?

Anyone can advise?
[EVO 4G General] Dalkbur:
I'm having the same problem. I've opened 5554 and 8081 ports on the router and everything looks fine, but it always says cannot connect to those ports :S
[EVO 4G General] david1023:
I've used this on a Hero and now an EVO. It streams flawlessly for a few minutes but no matter what setting I try (and I've tried almost every combination) the audio always desynchronized after 5 or 10 minutes. The optimal setting for my EVO is referenced in post 6 but set the Frame rate to "Original" and check "Synchronize on audio" for best results.

My only complain is that every 5 or so minutes the audio will desynchronize. I've tried every combination available as well as different versions of VLC itself my testing has spanned my Home server and Work server. I really don't know if the problem is with the VLC S&C mobile app or VLC desktop, or both?? Is anybody out there streaming full tv shows and movies without the sync issues?

Another question, what does the "MP4A LATM" option do?
[EVO 4G General] fachadick:
I use it constantly, and have watched many full movies and tv shows with no issues. This is over WiFi though, not 3g/4g.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G General] louforgiveno:
1. try disabling windows firewall (temporarily) and see if it works, if it does work -re-enable windows firewall then go to windows firewall Advanced Settings and create a new "inbound rule" (as a port)- add your "specified" ports in the Ports And Protocalls setup page where it says "All Ports" -(change to specific ports)Add your ports, set it as TCP in top of window.

Don't Know if it matters but I created a second one and pointed it to vlc.exe (under Programs and Settings) then Added "specific Ports"

2. You might also want to go here http://www.no-ip.com/newUser.php create account, download install client set it up. It allows your phone to find your computer (this is if your using 3g to connect) if your just using wifi at home you can skip 2.

I'm assuming you already edited the .HOST file in vlc/http. And that you have vlc running on pc with web interface activated.

Good luck
[EVO 4G General] nstereo2002:
yea..so i am going around and around trying to figure this thing out....i have it controlling my vlc player already..im just really confused about all this tcp port number and where and what to do with them...im self taught on computers so i have never really played with firewalls tcp ports and such...HELP!! i would love to be able to use this and access my videos from anywhere....

thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G General] akrod2as:
Just setup a vpn, very simple. That's what I did.
[EVO 4G General] jerich007:
This works great on 3G via vpn, but I'm unable to connect over 4G. Anyone know why?

EDIT: works on 4G but I had lower the bit rate, or use MP4 or h.263.
[EVO 4G General] snowpunter:
I'm still blown away by how many folks don't know about this app. I've been watching Mythbusters on my big screen via HDMI and it looks great. The only setting I changed was upping the bitrate from 256 to 768. For all the complaints about how gimped out HDMI was on the EVO this app has made all those complaints irrelevant.
[EVO 4G General] boomer8403:
This looks awesome. I need a DETAILED list of instructions on how to set this up as I'm not a computer techy. I've tried and can't get it to connect for anything..

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[EVO 4G General] ryboto:
I've got a Captivate, and when I try to stream any video, avi, mkv, from HD to crappy quality, they all exhibit what looks like color smearing. I can see a background image, but the colors are all tearing and smearing. Audio works fine.
[EVO 4G General] goldenglobes10:
guys, i need help, bad.

i finally got my evo to connect with port 8080 forwarded, and everything setup on my phone to connect, but when i go to play a file, it says cannot play xx.xxx.xxx.xxx.5554? i tried to switch my ports to that but now it wont even connect to vlc? any ideas

slowly getting it guys, now i got it to play once and then i tried to chance episode to double check it worked, and it just buffered out and said could not play, to many errors? Ive looked around for this but cant seem to find any solution on how to fix it. Ive done all the video tweaking to see if optimizing it would help but no go. what do you all think?
[EVO 4G General] DarkManX4lf:
For those of you who have subsonic, you can stream videos now.
[EVO 4G General] SmittyRN:
I'm having the same problems as the others. Just installed this software on my Nook tonight, and after a few false starts, got it up and running... except I couldn't pay video, just heard the audio. So I installed it on my Inspire HD, and during the setup, I realized I had been setting the player mode to "stream to phone (http)", not rtsp. So I chose rtsp on my phone, and it works perfectly. Went back to the Nook, and changed the player settings, but now it just flashes "buffering" for about a minute then tells me it can't play the file, too many errors. It's set up the same as my phone, but just won't work. Any advice?
[EVO 4G General] m4xwellmurd3r:
I did some weird things that made it work.

I first made rockplayer the default for video, then I froze the gallery app with titanium, then it finally played perfectly. I still have a problem with .mkv files crashing vlc on my pc. And its strange because I have a series of shows, and they are all the same encoding, but one just will kill it. Convert on PC works great though

Sent from my (insert daily ROM name here) Evo 4g
[EVO 4G General] bsmoove386:
I hope this forum can get active again!! because I was trying to set this up yesterday and it would not work at all!! I thouhgt i knew the basic enough about port forwarding and was kind of understanding what vpn basically does. However, I couldn't get anything to work. Then I finally connected and i got stuff playing but with audio no video. So i tried changing ports and now I can't get any connection whatsoever. Can anyone tell me which port they used for rstp? and what port you put when you trying to connect as well as the ip?

Also for vpn connections when you are inputting the address under vpnusers do you put whatever ip address you want?!! Also how do you connect to vpn on the app because it asks me for a username and password but when i input vpnusers and the password it doesn't connect!!
[EVO 4G General] m4xwellmurd3r:
I used port 8080 and the IP is the IP of your PC when its connected to the router. Generally its 192.168.x.x in my case though I didn't wanna have port issues so my PC is running in dmz mode so its IP is the same as my external IP. I just have my firewall allow vocal full access. I can watch movies flawlessly through 3g anywhere as long as I have 600kbps or more data.

When I get cannot play too many errors I usually just hit stop and exit then re-launch vlc

Sent from my (insert daily ROM name here) Evo 4g
[EVO 4G General] bsmoove386:
I do not know if my router is not able to access even though i have the ports open for 554,5554, and 8081 to port forward. I can connect to my vlc on my computer but i can not play the video only get the sound.
[EVO 4G General] bsmoove386:
where is the rockplayer app? because I can only find the rockplayer lite app in the market. Also how do you make it a default? I don't get that option to choose a player in the vlc stream and convert.
[EVO 4G General] jander6442:
for those who have gotten passed the port forwarding issues I found that if you bridged your modem this will get you passed the cannot play to many errors message. Worked for me.

Now if I can find out why it does not show my c drive?
[EVO 4G General] retsnom:
I'm trying to set this thing up but I keep on hitting a wall. I'm setting up the VPN under Windows 7. I'm sure I have set everything correctly yet when I try to connect to the VPN networks on my Incredible, I get the error "Server hung up. The username or password you entered could be incorrect."

I'm sure the username/password is correct since if I try to enter a random acount information, it gives me a flat out "wrong username/password" error without the "Server hung up" message.

Help, anyone?
[EVO 4G General] CBMC:
Having the same problem. Can connect through my vpn on wifi. Can connect through my vlc on wifi (either home or away)...But cannot get it working over 3g/4g on verizons network. Any ideas?
[EVO 4G General] Viper5030:
Just an FYI: Mine stopped working suddently. It would connect to the web interface, allow me to browse, but streaming over rtsp would fail with a "General Error".

The fix was to stream to port 5554 instead of 554 (which I had set up and working before). Not sure why I had to do this since it was working fine before, but I have a feeling it has to do with Android 2.2.
[EVO 4G General] CBMC:
My problem is only over 3g and 4g...On the Verizon Network (HTC Thunderbolt)...I have tried opening both of those ports and still can't get it to work.
[EVO 4G General] fenixjn:
I think I remember reading on the author's website that in order for 3G/4G streaming to work wifi must be enabled. Wifi does not need to be connected to any network but it has to be enabled.
[EVO 4G General] CBMC:
Yeah, I saw that....Still getting the same. I can browse the files over 3g, just can't actually watch the video stream. Program works great over wifi though, just wish I could get it to work over my cellular (Verizon Wireless) network. I've tried opening routing through 554, 5554, 80, 8081. No idea?
[EVO 4G General] OldGMan:
Not sure if anyone else has tried this or not, but for what ever reason it seemed to have worked for me. I noticed that when I was connecting it would show me the IP and port it was attempting to connect to. This was not my IP/Port for VLC but for VPN....

I tried a few thing first and failed, but what I did do is I placed my port forwarding for VLC FIRST in my list of virtual servers for port forwarding on my router (Belkin G-MIMO)

This seemed to make the difference. Cannot tell you why, maybe its because this is a really crappy router and needs to be upgraded. :)

Otherwise it seems to work ok in the initial tests. I can connect via wifi and 3G, (as long as wifi is enabled)

Going to run a few more tests tomorrow and see what happens. What I need now is good settings for either VLC or Handbrake to convert my DVD's into a good format for viewing. Ideas anyone?

I love this app and if all goes well, I am more than willing to shell out for it!
[EVO 4G General] OldGMan:
Alas no luck

Well no luck from outside the network.....

I set up a DYNDNS account to ensure I have the right IP for my network, and I had the WIFI enabled, using 3G. HTC EVO....

Question on port forwarding...

I have each port forwarded to a different ip...

So...

8080 is forwarded to 192.168.2.20

8081 is forwarded to 192.168.2.21

5554 is forwarded to 192.168.2.22

554 is forwarded to 192.168.2.23

is this the correct method or should they all go to the same IP...ie 192.168.2.20?

Noob on the whole forwarding thing...I got my TightVNC server working just fine through portforwarding but that is it.
[EVO 4G General] tahlsr:
You want all the 4 different ports forwarded to the same ip address. The ip address of your computer that is running the VLC server.
[EVO 4G General] OldGMan:
DOH

Facepalm......

Thank you for that. I look forward to coming back home to try again.:D
[EVO 4G General] OldGMan:
Success at last --almost

Feeling much better now that I understand the port forwarding a little better. The other issues I worked out had to do with some of the settings in VLC. For those of us who are not so savvy with setting something like this up here is what I missed.

In VLC, under

Tools -->Preferences

Go to the bottom of the page and look for [Show Settings] check the radio button for All.

Choose Interface

-->Main Interface -->HTTP

In the Host Address section, enter your internal IP address. Then press Save.

So far it has connected just fine! Now I need to work on some of the streaming settings or possibly the format that I have videos in. I am using the default settings in VLC S&C, I am getting some smearing of the video and a lot of buffering. About two five min. into the video, it goes into Cannot play: Too many errors. The only way to get anything working again is to stop the player and start again.

Are there some preferred setting in VLC S&C for making the playback a little smoother/reliable and to help avoid the Too many errors, error?

I have video that I converted using VLC to an .MP4 video file.

720x480

Bit rate 677kbps 24 frames/sec - Audio Bit rate 103kpbs

What should be my standard for converting my video and what settings are people using to get smooth playback using VLC S&C? I have been scouring the developers site for any ideas on what the other settings should be used for but no luck.

Thanks to everyone for the help.
[EVO 4G General] JVogler:
Anyone here using this on an Atrix. I have everything working fine as far as streaming. I can't seem to find a setting combo that will retain correct aspect ratio in both portrait and landscape. I would lock to landscape, but then you can't access menus. If I get the portrait looking good, then the landscape will be stretched strangely or squished. Anyone successfully setup on Atrix?

Also in landscape mode, the seeker bar/controls never stay hidden. Pop on and off every few seconds.
[EVO 4G General] aikeru:
Network shares/mapped drives?

Hey, guys. I search through this thread and have been googling it but I'm a VLC noob...

How do you get VLC to look at network shares OR at mapped drives? All my video is stored on NAS.

Please help me out! :)
[EVO 4G General] sakis_the_fraud:
hey that works great except from 1 (okay two!) things:

1: it doesn't show correctly the greek subtitle characters. can i do something for this?

2: can i change the default player with one of my choice?

thank you in advance for your help!
[EVO 4G General] Trev186:
I feel like I am just one step away...

I have followed every guide imaginable for this application with no luck.

My ports are forwarded fine.

I have Subsonic setup and working, I have ANDFTP working and Torrentfu working

I forwarded the required ports and it will work over WIFI just fine and in better quality than Subsonic BUT

over 3G with port 5554 I get issues. It just says buffering and after awhile it will say "too many errors" or it will say buffering failed.

I tried making sure my Wifi antenna was on by forgetting my home WIFI and then trying to stream over 3G with no change at all.

I have the web ui working which for the longest time would not.

VPN will not work for me. I put in the right info BUT it always says I got hung up on.