Monday, February 21, 2011

How to Get AirVideo Features in Android for Free

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AirVideo makes it possible for iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch users to stream any video format on their devices. If you’re an Android user, then you are in luck, because you can get AirVideo’s features for free with VLC-Share.
In today’s tutorial, we will start off by giving you an instruction on how to install VLC-Share, followed by configuring firewall and port forwarding, and we complete the tutorial with a walk through of VLC-Share features.

Installing VLC-Share

To start off, grab a copy of VLC-Share and install the required packages
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 zend-framework zend-framework-bin vlc php5-sqlite php5-cli vlc
Install the FFMPEG, and the extra codecs for VLC.
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg; sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-52 libavcodec-unstripped-52
Enable the apache’s mod_rewrite

sudo a2enmod rewrite

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