VLC Streamer v2.56 (3790)

Hobbyist Software Ltd

About this app

Developer Description

Sit anywhere in your house, watch movies on your Android.

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.

What's New

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

Version Information

Version: 2.56 (3790)
Downloads: 10K+
Updated on: Jul 5, 2025
Released: Mar 4, 2013
Requires: Android 7.0

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VLC Streamer users say on Google Play

★★★★★

Levi Smith

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.

★★★★

A Google user

Only gripe about this app is that it doesn't remember where you left off in a show. If you accidently back out of a show and you open it up it starts from the beginning. I still love this app, it works really well, mainly. I'd love to see the option to stream audio!

★★★

A Google user

Loved this app and still do, but not as much as I used to. Worked really well on my old phones but I've been having some issues. it doesn't use my full screen, my phones touch controls are still on the bottom of the screen. Would love to see a better way to fast forward (like tapping on the screen like what you can do in youtube videos) unless I dont know of an easier way to do small amounts easily.

★★

Herkko Koskinen

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..

★

Ian Newman

Nothing but errors. This app used to be amazing but ever since it went to a paid "updated" version it's been nothing but a headache. Cant connect to my pc most of the time. Downloading to device freezes every 4 minutes of progress and wont complete. Such a disaster from an app that used to be amazing. I used to be such a big fan of everything vlc for so long but this is just garbage. So disappointing. And i bought and tried the paid version becauase what it USED to be was well worth it.