XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware   
   From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 2/3/24 02:28 AM, Oliver wrote:   
   > I don't know what I'm doing so that's why I'm asking the question.   
   >   
   > I can easily download movies (don't ask how if you're going to preach).   
   >   
   > My sister wants to stream some movies on her phone that I download.   
   > She lives two states away so I have to put it on my router USB.   
   >   
   > If she was technical, she could download it onto your mac & play it.   
   > But she doesn't want to do that (it's a company mac she uses).   
   >   
   > But she has an iPhone 14, which is what she uses to stream movies.   
   >   
   > Given a typical 1080p movie is about 2GB, downloading onto her phone is   
   problematic for her (plus   
   > she's not technical so it has to be easy).   
   >   
   > She wants to stream it instead.   
   >   
   > It's easy to put the movie onto the router USB stick and that makes the   
   entire 2GB available to her   
   > for downloading, but can she stream it?   
   >   
   > I guess the test is whether I can stream it on my own network, right?   
   > How do you test "stream" a movie that you have access to on your LAN?   
   >   
   > What software does that streaming (to simulate what she'll need to do)?   
   >   
   > I have VLC and MPC-BE freeware but that "plays" the full movie.   
   > How would I stream a movie on Windows to test it out for her iPhone?   
   Do you have google drive?  One Drive?   
   I put an AVI on my GoogleDrive and clicked on it and it opened in Firefox and   
   played.   
   With either drive you can share items with her.   Last time I did it, it just   
   wanted the email of   
   the person you share with and it sends a link to them.  She then clicks the   
   link.   
      
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