This means that you can only watch them while you are connected to your home wifi. When you use the helper to stream movies to your device - then they are not copied to your device.
WHAT IS VLC MOVIE
Typically, you'll only have to wait a ten or so seconds for the helper app to convert enough of the movie and you can start watching immediately.Īnother advantage of this approach is that it doesn't use up space on your iDevice - movies live on your PC/Mac and you can watch them when you're ready. When you select a movie, the helper immediately starts converting it to an efficient format for streaming and then streams it to your device.īecause this format is Apple's chosen streaming format - the device is optimised to play movies smoothly even at high resolutions.
WHAT IS VLC PC
Once you have the helper installed on your computer, you can select any video on your Mac or PC (no need to copy videos in advance, or to add them to the helper). If you're getting the 'too slow' warning, then the best fix is to connect to the helper on your computer and stream from that. You may have opened this page because of a 'too slow' warning. Unfortunately - decoding movies makes your device work very hard - and particularly if you have a high resolution movie, it may simply be too slow. mov movie) VLC Streamer will use VLC to attempt playback. It is also possible to copy movies directly to VLC Streamer through iTunes, and VLC Streamer will try to play them without using the helper.įor most movies (anything except a. The helper converts your movies and streams them to your device. This means that you run the helper app on your computer and connect to the helper from your iPhone or iPad. VLC Streamer is mostly designed to stream movies.