After setting a few things up, VLC will let you stream videos directly from any of these services with a proper video player UI, complete with gesture controls.
Enter the address displayed on your TV screen (your screen will look like ours, in the screenshot above, but will have a different address). Next, go to any computer on your local network and open a web browser. This activates the VLC remote playback server. Now, click on the Audio option in the VLC media player and shift the cursor to Audio Device. Swipe down to highlight Enable Remote Playback and press the touch pad to select it. The next step is to click on the icon that resembles the TV shape and choose the device on which you want to airplay the video in VLC to stream on the TV. If an AirPlay passcode appears on your TV screen. If you have movies and videos stored on Box, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive, you should definitely be using the VLC app for iPhone. First, go to VLC app settings Menu and enable the play in your device background by turn on the Play Videos in Background option so that you can listen to songs. Choose Device and Select Airplay as the Option. 2 on your iPhone or iPad should place the Apple TV app in the.
Select your Apple TV, AirPlay 2-compatible smart TV, or Mac from the list. Ill provide the steps to how to configure your VLC player to stream TV. On iPhone 8 or earlier or iOS 11 or earlier: Swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen. ITunes was just too busy constantly, which made it very cumbersome to work with, so I'm definitely experimenting with alternatives, VLC seems to be the one, but if only I knew how to make it play stuff from all of the directories and subdirectories I added, not just certain stuff. On iPhone X or later or iPad with iPadOS 13 or later: Swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen. First of all, it supports almost all types of video and audio formats.
Does anyone know if let's say I were to add my Moop TV exclusives, Moop TV From Dropbox, and Moop TV In Google Drive (those are the three folders in my Moop TV hard drive folder), is there a way to randomize all 400 and some thousand shows (they're audio only) contained throughout the layers of subfolders? I've tried to add them all, but it seems to be popping up a lot of shows from the same or similar directories, it's not going all over the map so to speak. VLC player in iPhone and iPad can do a lot of things than the default media player. Simply download Plex for Mac here, follow the on-screen instructions and point the app to the folder on your Mac where your video files are stored. When I add my main Moop TV folder to VLC's media library, the multi-multi part subdirectories don't show up, I have to expand them almost as if they were the stackable nesting dolls, lol.
For example, one folder looks like this Main Moop TV/moop TV hard drive exclusives/coverage/Jcoverage/part one. I have folders which have multi-layered directories.