VLC Streamer

Hobbyist Software Ltd

About this app

VLC Streamer lets you sit anywhere in your house and watch movies or TV shows on your Android.

VLC Streamer streams movies from your computer (Mac or PC) over your wifi to your Android.

You can watch anything from your movie collection.

No need for complex conversion processes.

No need to manually transfer movies to your device.


Features include
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* Free helper app gets you streaming quickly and allows you to browse local drives, and Windows network shares
* Live streaming of video after a few seconds of processing
(assumes a reasonably powered computer)
* Support for multiple resolutions and streaming quality levels
* Supports Mac OS 10.10 and above
* Supports Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10

There are a huge number of movie formats, and VLC can convert most of them - but it can't convert everything. If you have any doubts, then please try the free version of this application first.

VLC Streamer will not play DRM protected videos. (Videos from the iTunes store do include DRM).

VLC Streamer is designed to work on your local wifi network, and the free helper app has to run on your Mac or PC.

Ratings and reviews

For some reason the Android version is not as robust as the iOS version. Since switching to Android I compared and realized the app was not designed properly. For example, in your movie menu when you try to click the "i" info icon to the right of the title to bring up the options menu. What happens is that it hits the scroll button and scrolls down to another title in your list. It's frustrating. Even If you get it to work, then it downloads a completely different title to your phone.

Worse than when it was free. Copying a movie to the device fails at the same spot every time and it loses connection to the computer... Can't seem to get around the issue. Oddly, I never had problems with this app before the dev started to ask for money. Edit: Now copying works but trying to do it onto a phone, when you try to press the (i) logo to select file options, you touch the side scrolling bar instead making it impossible to copy files. Unbelievable..

A glorious app that has brought me great joy. I tried to find a free solution to stream .mkv files from my PC to android phone before I knew about this, but none of them worked. Easy to set up and reliable. Best $3 I ever spent. I kinda wish my notifications bar would go away, but it's surprisingly easy to ignore. Still worth it.

What’s new

Update to latest Android SDK; fix the Gestures dialog UI issue.