Easily stream videos from computer to Android [Video]
Today I going to share an awesome workaround that I use when I want tostream videos from computer to Androidsmartphones or tablet. There are many places around the house where you can’t take you laptop with you like toilet, kitchen or rooftop and you still need the watch videos from your PC hard drive.
Here are few reasons why I find this method useful over others.
In this article we will be using ES file explorer app to stream music from computer to android. I believe that most of you might already have install this app as it quite popular file explorer.
So let get started.
First of all you will need 4 things for this to work.
Now to find the username and IP address you may use the %username% and ipconfig command on your command prompt. See the screenshot below. While the password will be the same, that you use while you login to your computer.
To make the folder (contains video) shareable right click on it > properties > share > add everyone to it.
Next you will need to have both smartphones and computer under same network. You don’t have to do anything if are using router at your home but if don’t have it, then you’re able to use free app called connectify installer for that. Just do a quick Google search and you will be able to install it easily.
Now on your android open ES file explore and look for LAN option. Do a quick scan and you will see you computer’s IP address.Click on it and enter you login username and password.
Now navigate to the video and play it.
If have face any problem then speak up using the comments below and I will try to solve it. Also let me know know if use any other way tostream from computer to android.
Also readHow to transfer files from pc to android tablet over wifi
Mrinal Saha
Mrinal is a tech geek who spends half of his day reading and writing about tech. While the nights are spent on shooting or editing YouTube videos. Feel free to geek out with him on-
