Leave a Review VLC Streamer Pro
The best thing since sliced bread!
I just love this program. Hop into bed in Winter and watch a movie/video all snuggly. Very occasionally pixelates, but it's a winner with me. Probably more to do with my wireless, than anything else. Love itColleen Spiro-Gourlay
Marvelous
Exactly what I needed! Everything works great with that app and there is regular update making it always better!
It would be good to be able able to stream .mkv. Maybe it is not possible? Anyway very good app!gagnomar
Awesome
Great app!!! Love being able to watch anything without converting it first! Also being able to copy to my device is great! Keep up the great work!!Dr_Emde
The best media player by a distance
Having tried a bunch of media players both free and purchased, this is by far the best I have found. It is a touch fiddly to set up depending on your firewall setup, but once running I found it worked great for both Vob files and mkv's. The latter in particular was impressive as it is capable of reducing the quality of HD MKV's to a level
That makes them watchable on your device whatever their original quality. All other apps I tried including 8player flexplayer proplayer etc either could not play the files at all or played them back all jerky. Found that pausing and resuming worked unlike many other players that just wont let you navigate through a file and keep sending you back to beginning. Some streaming was not quite perfect but everything was watchable hence 4 stars. Also, interface for copying files over was great in that you can use either computer or app to do it, only issue is that you can only select one file at a time. At £1.49 this is the best value easiest and most functional app I have found for watching vobs and mkv'sShow lessUbersmiter
Another great VLC product
I am an appreciative consumer of the free VLC video player, which I have been using for many years. So when I bought the new iPad I thought I'd see if there was a VLC app that could stream the films I have on my laptop. To my delight there was and what's more it is also free. It works fantastically well and was a doddle to set up and extremely easy to use. As well as downloading the app you also need to download the streamer software to your computer. Again really straightforward. For a nominal fee there is also an upgrade, which gets rid of the adds and allows you to upload films direct to your iPad, so you can watch them away from home and not have to convert them through iTunes. Well worth the money, especially considering the software developer has been providing and continues to provide free software. So many thanks to the developer for a product that does a great job and plays virtually any format you want to at it. HagbardShow lessHagbard O
FANTASTIC
Buy now! enjoy your movies. The best and most used App on all my devices bar none. The best money I have ever spent on an App. I can sit anywhere in my house including bed and watch HI Res movies on my iPhone or iPad. Thanks again guys for a great piece of software.Olorin Tane
Transcends all other Apps!
In so many categories, this app redefines greatness.
I don’t know if you already have a good way to play your video library (all formats and codecs) on the iPods/iPhones/iPad, but you should check out “VLC Streamer”. When you first launch it, it will link you to a little helper installer for the PC or Mac that you must download and install. This will let you browse all of your drives contents and queue movies for streaming to the Apple iOS devices. You should run that on the PC with the fastest processor, even if it isn’t actually hosting the video files(it just needs to have a drive mapped to the video files). Then you just launch the iOS App, pick a movie and bingo! Its really awesome. Instant access to any video file on your network. It can even download it to your device for watching away from home once the stream conversion is finished. The add-free version is $1.99 – definitely worth it.
This might make handbrake obsolete!Show lessJazzy_Jay
Absolutely brilliant
This is hands down the easiest video streaming solution, period. The app I always believed could exist. Streams my .wtv HTPC recordings on the fly with no pre transcoding needed. iPad + VLC + Vogels wall mount + treadmill + whatever show I recorded last week that needs catching up on = FTW! Would have given 5 stars but it needs to do a better job of buffering. Playback is mostly flawless and some pausing is understandable over two wireless hops, but when it gets bad it should adapt and just buffer longer before trying to resume playback. Also, if you pause long enough for the iPad to sleep it forgets where you were on playback and you have to use the scrub control to try and find where you left off. That said, Setup was a snap, the interface is easy and intuitive. Again, absolutely brilliant. So glad I found this before I pulled the trigger on another solution to get my windows recorded T.V. on iPad.Show lessWUT??
Not quite what I hoped for - NO TV OUT
First the positive - I love VLC. I have used the free media player for years and just updated to the new release. Because of all my positive experiences with VLC I'm not too upset by the misrepresentation. I loaded VLC streamer on my iphone 3g expecting it to provide TV out capability. The App clearly states that it is compatible with iphone running iOS 4.0 or later. This is not completely true. Older iphones don't have the TV out capacity - which happens to be the only reason I purchased this App - that is to get TV out capacity. I expected to be able to access my entire media library and stream directly to my iphone and then connect to my TV. After finding that it doesn't work, I discovered that it is a known issue and that full VLC streamer capability is only available on the iphone 4 and not any of the older iphones despite the fact that VLC has it showing in the requirements section that it is compatible with iphones running iOS 4.0 or later. I think you should highlight the limited capability within the requirements section to prevent further confusion. I have benefited from your free VLC media player so please accept this purchase as a donation. Thanks again for your great products.Show lessGrahambo10
Great addition for a htpc
I primarily use this to stream tv shows I record on my windows 7 media center pc. I record shows from CBS which I can't play on my iPad due to the whole flash thing not being supported. But, WMC records it and then my vlc streamer app is used to convert and stream it to the iPad. Watching tv in bed or anywhere in the house on wifi is convenient.
My movies are also now available from the htpc as well making my iPad all the more fun to have.
I do suggest strongly you try setting up the free version of this first. Do understand there are technical requirements to getting this all to work including having a pc with disk space, processing power, and of course source media to work with.
There is a lot of help on the forums but if you are not technically inclined, have a decent wifi router, or can comprehend how to set this up you may want to skip it.Show lessCCpiper125
