How to play a recording from other system using VLC

[turmbrown]

I spent two days searching & trying to figure this out, gave up, and joined the forum today for help.  I have a working setup of NextPVR on a PC running Ubuntu.  I can play live TV or recorded shows via a web browser from a different PC.  I can also play the recordings through KODI from a different PC or on my FireTV Cube.  So basically everything is working except when it comes to using VLC.

I cannot figure out how to play a recording in VLC while running on a different PC.  In VLC I have tried Media->Open Network Stream and entered http://<myserver>:8866/live?recording=<XXX>

What I'm doing is either wrong or I'm not entering the proper value for XXX.

1. Am I feeding it the proper URL path?
   
2. How does one figure out what recording ID number to feed to VLC?
   

[mvallevand]

Since VLC is a a dumb client, you need to enable Unauthenticated Access on the Settings->Access page. VLC is specifically mentioned on that page.

Martin

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I cannot figure out how to play a recording in VLC while running on a different PC. In VLC I have tried Media->Open Network Stream and entered http://<myserver>:8866/live?recording=<XXX>

What I'm doing is either wrong or I'm not entering the proper value for XXX.

Am I feeding it the proper URL path?
How does one figure out what recording ID number to feed to VLC?

Yes that path is correct. As Martin said, you'll probably need to enable unauthenticated access.

For determining to correct id, on the web app, click a recording, then scroll to the bottom of the player page, and click the 'how else can I watch my recordings' and it'll show you the url with XXX value.

[HarryH3]

If you just want to watch a video from the remote PC, don't use "Open network stream". Instead, use "Open File", browse to the remote system, then the folder that has the video file. Double-click on the file name and enjoy. :-)