Video streaming software from PC to Android

Question

Android

There is:

• Windows 7 PC
• phone (LG P500) with Android 2.3.3
• Collection of videos (movies, series) on PC
• LAN over WiFi

What you need: watch videos from your PC on your phone, preferably in streaming mode, so as not to download the file before watching.

You can share the directory via Samba and stream on your phone using ES Explorer , but the problem is that some files have too high a bitrate, a format incompatible with the phone, or too high a resolution. As a result, videos sometimes slow down, or do not open at all.

What do you want:

• an application on a PC that would provide access to video recordings on the LAN, while converting (streaming!) Video recordings into a format supported (without brakes) by the target device
• the phone application, which connected to the application on the PC, allowed you to select a video file, requested the stream in the desired format and showed
• also desirable: the ability to select an audio track, the ability to connect external subtitles.

Found a few options but couldn't get them to work:

• Emit
• AndroStream

Answer 1

A Home Media Server is installed on the PC . On Android - depending on the capabilities of hardware and software. If there is no built-in support for DLNA / UPnP, we install some kind of DLNA controller (for example, I have BubbleUPnP). To play video, it is best to use a hardware decoder, well, in extreme cases, you can put something from software video players (for example, the same RockPlayer supports streaming playback). The server can be spinning on your computer all the time, and at any time you can launch the desired movie directly from your phone.
HMS is a DLNA server with transcoding capability. Supports video and music playback as well as photo viewing. The hardest part of this process is setting up HMS for your Android device. It comes with a lot of common transcoding profiles, but it’s not a fact that there is a suitable one among them. But it has very wide customization options, so you can almost always customize it.
By default, HMS communicates with the phone using the DLNA protocol, but if there are fundamental problems with this, the server also has a Web interface.

Answer 2

At one time, I streamed vlc perfectly on android or ios and even squeezed it to the right resolution on the fly.