Hi, I just discovered a feature in the VLC player that I had no idea existed before please help me understand it better.

My original goal was to be able to select a video from local storage and stream it via http so that I can watch the stream from an old device hooked to a CRT.

The device's player supports very simple http streaming, I recently came across a stream that I am very interested in watching, especially as background noise but want to be able to see it from time to time.

Here's the problem the device will only show three links upon selecting it, once I click one it will show about five seconds per link and it takes around 20 seconds to load each.
It comes in chunks and is unwatchable, but then I realized with VLC I can give it the stream and send it back to my device from the computer (in what I'm guessing is a now muxed on-the-fly flv stream). The device can now play it perfectly and my low-powered computer doesn't have to real-time transcode the stream!

Now the next problem is the computer, it's an old windows xp desktop with a very loud fan... It ruins the purpose of watching my stream.

What it comes down to is: this thing I can do with VLC, can I do it with other programs... on android? If I could move the VLC step to android it would be perfect for me.
For some reason though I am lost when it comes to looking for software that can do this exact thing.


Anyone experienced with this technique of taking streaming video, remuxing, and re-streaming? Simply looking for "streaming video on android" doesn't return anything useful.