VLC Streamer Pro

This can easily be the best app I've seen in 5 years. Amazing.

I’ve been waiting 2-3 hours already to convert the videos on my laptop so I can play them on my iPad.

This vlc is inscrutable on the ipad. I see none of the menus shown in the windows version. I cannot open files if i want to, unless the playvlc comes up for some for some reason i cannot figure out.

This is the best streaming app in terms of functionality I’ve found on iPhone. GoodPlayer, “real” VLC, etc have interesting features and potentially easier setup but get bogged down with weird buffering problems, or bizarre interface choices. VLC streamer works way more often than others and it has great interface customization Search can be a bit iffy if your library gets large, but the tagging system is solid. Would love to see search work with larger libraries (or for the keyboard to dismiss reliably) but again it’s a trivial problem. The need to preprocess videos is a small price for them to reliably work on the phone and the access control via a simple password is helpful. Bottom line: it works!

Customer support won’t answer email. Frustrating app and service. When this streamer “converts” files to stream it creates a redundant file somewhere on the C: drive. This causes one movie to take up twice the amount of space. The reason we’re emailing them is to find out where the converted files are going, as we can’t find them other-than the “app-roaming” folder which seems like the converted files are stuck in limbo and can’t figure out why the streamer is doing this. Hobbyist Software will not respond to this issue via email.

App does not work as a standalone iOS VLC app. It requires a pc/mac host to function. Not even close to feature dense as the real free to download open source and buggy vlc player currently on the store.

I rarely spring for the pro version of any free app, even when cheap, but this one is totally deserving and worth it.

I have a 1GB small 5port switch connected to a Ubiquity Unifi Pro access points. I have streamed 3 large movie files and works without a hiccup. Please note when I was using my WAN modem with built In WiFi provided by my ISP, it would be very inconsistent and to many crashes. It was once I invested in a unifi WiFi, that was life changing. I will try with other video formats and stress test it.

The only reason I installed this app was so I could stream from my pc to my chromecast using my phone. It doesn’t do that. I can’t see any reason to keep this app. Waste of money.

I’m a grandma. I believe Techno-dinosaur is the correct term. I don’t know what this app does but I bought it to thank the developers for all the times I’ve enjoyed using vlc. I’ll ask my seven year old grandson to show me how to use it.