XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.freeware   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On 2/3/2024 2:28 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?   
      
   Windows Media Player (WMP) has a streaming server in it.   
      
   You could set it up on 192.168.1.2 right now, and sit at   
   192.168.1.5 and watch a movie.   
      
   That's an example of a basic streaming server.   
      
      Paul   
      
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