Vlc-clickr is a project mainly written in RUBY and JAVASCRIPT, it's free.
A remote control for VLC media player served up with RoR
This is a remote control web app that will list the media files in directories configured. Then the user can choose what to play on the remote machine, also play/stop/pause/next/forward controls available.
This project is a WORK-IN-PROGRESS so there are things that are going to be added still. like
playlist functionality better views for music so I can enque multiple files at a time *(long distance) adding a streaming source