Complete Guide on How to Screen Share from VLC Media Player to Apple TV

Do you want to watch a movie on Apple TV using a VLC media player? If yes, you will learn How to Screen Share from VLC to Apple TV with the guide given in this article.

Complete Guide on How to Screen Share from VLC Media Player to Apple TV

When it comes to playing videos, The cross-platform army Knife has proven to be very useful. It has been very popular on Windows, Mac, Linus for quite some time now, but now you have the opportunity to receive the same plays from VLC media anytime you wish to do so on your Apple TV.

How to Screen Share from VLC to Apple TV

Like most of the set-top media, Apple TV has proven useful in playing content that Apple it parent company provides, but it required a little bit of finesse to play it from other sources like a personal media collection, other streaming platforms, and the web.

Instead of having to go through the process of having to repurchase your favorite movies via iTunes, or converting your entire collection, you can play them using VLC. It can play video streams from both the local network and online.

VLC for tvOS does not only offers users the benefits of VLC desktop and mobile. Users are accustomed to (like the ability in other to increase the playback speed to power watch documentaries and more).

What You Can Play

There are several ways to play media on your Apple TV through VLC: Local network playback, remote playback, and network playback, remote playback, and network streaming playback. They all cover a totally different bit of media playback ground. So, let me give you how examples of each of them work.

1. Local Network Playback

If you have successfully set up your file sharing on your local network, via windows network shares or by UPnP file discovery, then you should not easily access each of the files in the directories through the “local network” tab in VLC for your Apple TV.

You can access the local network view in default once the VLC app has been launched. In the above screenshot, you get the chance to see how VLC has been discovered automatically, a few detectable file shares on our local network, of which three machines along with windows (SMB) shares enabled, two machines with the UPnP file sharing enabled, and one Plex media server (it also makes use UPnP).

If you basically use VLC for accessing your Plex Media server, you may need to install the free Apple TV app. For a more polished media center experience.

  • In other to access files, simply choose any of the entries in the local network tab, and if applicable, enter your login credentials for the file share or FTP server. After that, you can browse the shared folders just like you would on your PC, albeit with an Apple TV remote.
  • Choose the file from the directory, and it would launch using full-screen playback and remote-control support like you are watching movies directly from iTunes.
  • Immediately you swipe down on your Apple TV remote touchpad, you’ll see the on-screen menu.
  • Here are given the opportunity to make changes to the audio settings as well as download the aforementioned subtitles from OpenSubtitles.org and from there, you can adjust the playback speed.

2. Remote Playback: Drag and Drop

Local Network server would really come in handy if you already have the files servers set up and ready to go, but if you are in possession of a file on your computer you want to play now but no file share available to place it in. this is where VLC becomes very useful that comes into play.

  • Fire up VLC, and then swipe over to the “Remote Playback” tab.
  • After that, swipe down and highlight “Enable Remote Playback” and then press the touchpad and the choices it.
  • This activates the VLC remote playback server. After that, visit any computer on the local network and then open a web browser. Enter the address that is displayed on your TV screen.
  • You can drag videos and drop it any video files onto the web browser pane or you can enter a URL of a particular video stream. You also get the option of clicking the large + symbol to choose the media on the device.

It does not matter if you send the video files from your computer or your mobile device the files would play on your Apple TV and have the added bonus of being cached to your Apple TV’s local storage.

Madago Emuobo
This post is authored by Madago Emuobo A.K.A Mobo, the founder and Admin of Naijschools. With nearly a decade of expertise in the education sector, Mobo started with Naijschools providing up-to-date information on educational and tech-related topics on breaking news, and daily opportunities for students and graduates.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here