@mooglez - I agree, and that is essentially what the ncurses version of the app does, but pulling the stream to a PC desktop is a process that only works easily between linux machines via ssh. I wouldn't know how to pull a stream to a windows PC from the phone without some kind additional software for the PC (cywin, putty, etc). At least this way, all the fiddly bits are on the phone.

@Angry Master Yoda - there's no need to edit /etc/sudoers.d/ because that seems to just update /etc/sudoers which we did already. Also, the phone seems to be finding your ip address so I thought the issue was solved.....
Hmm... if you're on linux, stream phone and open VLC from a shell:
'cvlc http://192.168.1.X:9000', and tell me what messages it prints.