You can queue up as many movies as you like. While it's possible to watch movies as they're processing, I recommend waiting until it's marked as 'complete' before continuing. You'll see the movie appear in the queued movie box, with its status marked as 'processing'. Once done, either click 'Add movies' to select the video to stream, or open a separate folder window and drag the movie you wish to watch onto the 'Drag movies here' pane (as pictured above). Each setting, from 'Low bandwidth' to 'Very high resolution' comes with an explanation to help you choose the best one for your needs. First, click the 'Conversion quality' drop-down menu and choose which resolution you'd like to stream the movie in. To do so using your computer, double-click VLC Streamer's taskbar notification area icon (Windows), or click its menu bar icon and choose 'Add movies' (Mac). You can queue up video to stream from either your computer or your mobile. Mac users will need to manually launch it from the Applications folder. Once installed, Windows users should leave 'Run VLC Streamer now' ticked and click Finish to configure the Helper.

Double-click the setup file and follow the prompts to install the program. Now switch to your computer, browse to the VLC Streamer Helper download page and download the Windows, Mac or Linux version of VLC Streamer Helper. Select VLC Streamer Free and install it in the usual way.

Here's how.įirst, open the App Store on your iOS device and search for 'VLC Streamer'.

And if you're prepared to put up with ads, you can even get all of this functionality completely free. If your videos and music tracks are stored on a single computer, wouldn't it be great to be able to stream them to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch without having to shell out for a full-blown media server? Of course it would, and VLC Streamer is the app that will help you do this.Īs its name implies, VLC Streamer is based on VLC Media Player, which means it'll run most - if not all - video stored on your PC or Mac, without requiring conversion first.

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