NewUser - lost on web streaming

[Richardw]

Your indulgence please. I have been using npvr for sometime on one machine and now have the ability to stream on the local network (Samsung phone and ipad) so feel I have done well and my thanks to all the hints in the postings as I have worked my way through the guidance.

I now want to stream to a remote location as I am soon to go on holiday.

I have a no-ip address and have forwarded port 8866 from the router to the host machine. Turning off the wifi on my phone (so it is working over a 3G service) I can access:
http://name.no-ip.biz:8866/guide.aspx
which then displays on the phone. To my mind this proves that the port forwarding is working correctly.

However I cannot then get anything to play (either from recordings or a live stream). VLC on the phone tries but reports an error of some description (it goes too quickly to be read) - and only if I manually copy the link and post it into VLC

Re: config.xml - I have changed these two settings:
<AllowRemoteTranscode>true</AllowRemoteTranscode>
<AllowRemoteStreaming>true</AllowRemoteStreaming>
to that shown as they were false.

I sense I am close but drowning in technicalities somewhere.
On the phone I have found the streaming settings and changed the port to 8866 (was 7648) and upped the buffer. Streaming and playing recordings does not work.

Host machine - win 10, latest npvr version
Samsung phone is a Note 2, VLC has been updated to latest version.

I would welcome guidance on what to try next - if logs are needed being a simple older person I will some help to make sure I do the right things.

If this is explicitly covered in the documentation then please simply point me at it - I have read it through to achieve the above.

Thanking you in advance.

Richardw

[UncleJohnsBand]

If you are using the vlc streaming you will want the port on 7648 or something other than 8866 and you will want to forward that port from your router to your server. Having the stream on a separate port keeps the NEWA processing separate from the VLC streaming.

So my guess is you just need to set your port back for streaming and forward that port in your router.

View now from the guide (link under channel) will probably not work on a phone since it relies on the VLC web plugin which I do not believe they ported to the mobile vlc. It uses not use VLC... it uses NPVR's streaming. The watch now on the details pop-up of NEWA uses VLC.

[Richardw]

Been away on holiday so will follow guidance and advise. Many thanks.