Sit anywhere in your house and watch movies or TV shows on your iPhone, iPod or iPad.
VLC Streamer streams movies from your computer to your iDevice.
You can watch anything from your movie collection. No need for complex conversion processes. No need to manually transfer programs to your device.
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I prefer nPlayer.
Whats nPlayer?
@Neo:
it can stream from pretty much every device i have…
@jv: cheers mate, I'll try it out.
Edit: I 'll have to wait until it's free..
Never bought an app ever and don't plan on it now.
But looks pretty neat!
@ozy:
I 'll have to wait until it's free..
That might be a long wait… I bought it on a price drop quite a while ago as it was highly recommended. I've been using it ever since.
@Neo:
It doesn't really mention streaming from your PC though
A proper media player doesn't need to be "streamed to"
A proper media player simply opens and reads the files direct from the network.
And almost ANY media player can do that. Without having to run any special apps or programs on the computer.
The standard ALWAYS FREE iOS version of VLC can do it… https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/vlc-for-mobile/id650377962?m…
The product in this deal is NOT really VLC, it's a fake "named like VLC" product made by a tiny developer who offered another shitty free app here a few days ago.
@llama: VideoLAN's 'VLC for mobile' rocks. All I need to do is what it does. No need to pay for some third party, closed source, non-peer reviewed app that mostly implements features contained in opensource code if you don't need the features they add.
Just got the free version of nPlayer and it seems great! Connects quickly to all my computers and has played everything I've thrown at it. Good controls as well. May very well be my next fav player (was using Air Video Server HD till now).
Does anyone know if you could use this app to stream an Acestream to your ipad?
Awesome. Assuming what this does what it says on the tin, it will allow me to dodge my onedrive account, which is what I was using to watch downloaded content on my ipad.
Edit: loaded it, all works. Great interface. Thanks OP!
Why the developer uses a traffic cone as icon for a video player app. I don't get it.
What did you use to make this?
Edit: never mind. I figured it out LOL
because the students who created the program had a traffic cone collection
Cones and videos.
Enough said!
Oh now I get your nick :p
On Christmas Day it wears a Santa hat.
Why the developer uses a traffic cone as icon for a video player app
Because they want people to think that this is a genuine VLC product.
Which it is not.
This is the real one (always free): https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/vlc-for-mobile/id650377962?m…
Ta op
Unfortunately, although available, for Android the free version is ad-supported
Why not just use the official free VLC app? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html Streams from local devices
Yeah was going to say the same thing.
Is it ad free?
Yeah it's open source (of some type)
I wonder what the difference is then
@zacdavies: OK.
Or is it one of the myriads of apps that help themselves to code released under licenses for free and "innovates" by either charging money or serving ads often breaking the terms of the license? It could also be that this app is acting as a parasite by using an other app's reputation name and similar icon to decieve users as well.
I thought this sort of crap only happened on the Google Play store.
This deal is just one of the fakes, using bits of the open source code from the real VLC project.
It's a bit like all the Flappy Bird and Bejewelled clones.
It might well be a reasonable app, but it's certainly not VLC.
@zacdavies: Why? Or rather, how could it?
It relies on VLC code. Even the Logo is deliberately similar to the original VLC cone.
@rememberme: Indeed.
However as an app developer you can use that situation as an opportunity to make money (out of what is mostly community-contributed code), or you can contribute to the community by supporting the community to build an app it clearly needs to build.
It is your choice, though you fly in the face of the GPL and start making money out of open source projects, especially ones that rely entirely on donations.
How do you get it to work from local devices? My computer shows up as a SMB device but nothing happens when I select it?
Better than a VLC Steamer
I prefer Plex. you can browse to your collection using browser on you tablet or smart phone.
But you then need a Plex server right?
most features are free. I use plex on my network and no issues. I did not pay single cent.
It's not the PRICE of Plex, but the fact that to use Plex you must run a Plex Server.
With a proper/normal media player, you don't need to have such things running continuously on your computer. You simply open the file and read it.
Plex is primarily about transcoding, which makes it very resource hungry. You need a grunty CPU to run Plex. However if you simply share the files onto the network, then a very low powered machine (ie" less powerful than a mobile phone) can be used to stream all your content.
VLC by Video LAN is always free.
I have no idea why you are getting Negged. What you wrote is 100% true.
Being an Android user, I get how this can be useful if you have an Android device connected to your TV. Does anyone know if this can be used with Chromecast? Since there's no mention of it on the store page, I take it there isn't a chance?
Being an Android user, I get how this can be useful if you have an Android device connected to your TV.
Why? Android devices don't need this to be able to read files from a network. Or put another way, there are literally thousands of other ways to do what this app does.
Does anyone know if this can be used with Chromecast?
You don't need to.
http://allaboutchromecast.com/chromecast-how-to-guide/compar…
Does this stream 1080p though? I've tried some of these in the past, and yes, it will take 1080p, but once you stream it, you get only 720p on the screen. There are articles about this. If I had time, I'd find them and post them here.
Does what stream 1080p?
Chromecast? I have no idea, you'd need to check the device specs (I don't own one).
If you just use a normal DLNA or FTP or other kind of network share, then there isn't really any form of "streaming" involved. The file is just read back from the remote drive and played. So, it's simply a case of using suitable files and suitable media players. I have no idea if Chromecast is any good or not.
As a rule, anything that uses WiFi (Chromecast?) is going to choke on media higher than 720p anyway. Yeah, perhaps you might get 1080p at a reasonable bitrate across WiFi if the antenna distances are close… but you'd need to keep everyone else off your WiFi network while you were watching media or it'll stutter.
In my mind a Chromecast is an overly complicated and cumbersome way to do a simple thing like watching a movie over a network. I certainly see no use in buying one, however I assume that lots of people think they are great.
@llama: Yup. That comment was Chromecast related. Yeah, I've used HTPCs that play anything I throw at it in 1080p. I've since sold that now. Had a little Raspberry Pi doing that to… then I kind of lost that.
So for the time being, Chromecast is what I use at home, and from what I've tried (months and months ago), local content you stream is capped at 720p. Everything else though (YouTube, Netflix, etc) streams beautifully at 1080p, no problems.
This is not a legitimate VLC product.
Don't let the orange cone fool you into installing it, the developer of this product is trying to cash in on VLC proper, which this definitely is not.
Video Lan makes VLC, and VLC has been free for as long as I can remember having it.
Aww… nothing for the android crowd ?
Yes there is - go and get the GENUINE VLC app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.videolan.v…
This is a fake.
Thanks man. I never knew about this app. Got it.
I also highly recommend MX Player.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.vid…
I used to have low specced Android devices, and this had no issues, whereas VLC was a memory hog and I had stuttering and crashing. Ever since I got better specced hardware, VLC seemed fine. I'm only using VLC now because of the name, but I still think MX Player is better on resources.
Also, MX Player is ad supported, but you can buy the full version.
![[iOS] "VLC Streamer" Ad Free Version $0 @ iTunes](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/28/267328.jpg?h=b90ebe40)
VLC Streamer is quality. Love it.