How to Install VLC-Shares In Ubuntu And Stream Videos to Android

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 28, 2011

“VLC, without a doubt, is the best media player around. Not only
is it able to play almost any file format, it is also able to
stream audio/video from the Web and transcode on the fly.VLC-share
is a web implementation of VLC streaming and transcoding that
allows you to stream (and transcode) your videos to your WII Media
Center (WIIMC) or Android phone. Just think of airplay for Android
and you get VLC-Shares.

“In this tutorial, we will show you how to get VLC-shares up and
running in your Ubuntu machine. VLC-shares is available for Windows
as well and the installation and configuration instruction is
pretty easy and straightforward, so we will not touch on that.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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