Open a video in the app, select the cast to smartphone/tablet option, and then scan the QR code displayed (or send yourself a link to your phone) to stream video on your PC to your smartphone or tablet: SMPlayer can also stream video to your TV using Chromecast To stream content you do need to have a working Wi-Fi connection. The feature works by creating a (basic) web server on your PC over which your video is streamed. Providing you have a supported app on your phone (even a web browser all do) you can open the QR link and your video stream will begin playback right away. Then, to stream a video to your phone from your PC just open a compatible audio/video file in SMPlayer 15.6, head to the Play > Cast to > Smartphone/tablet menu option, and scan the QR code that appears using your phone or tablet camera. The handy feature means you can watch video on your computer from your phone with minimal effort as no uploading, no downloading, and no subscriptions are required.Īll you need to stream is the latest version of SMPlayer (v15.6) on your Windows, Mac or Linux desktop, plus an Android phone (or tablet) with a compatible media player, like MX Player or VLC for Android, installed. Start Kodi and enjoy your new third party video player.SMPlayer makes it easy to stream video from PC to Android over wifi The finished configuration should now look similarly this:Ħ. Paste the template under your 'players' tag. The wiki has more information about all the available options.ĥ.2.
You may also wanna specify the filetype and filename if you don't wish for everything to be played using this player. Here you need to set the name_of_the_player we choose earlier. Mine looks like: "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"
Path_to_your_video_player - The entire path to the preffered video player including the extension. Name_of_the_player - Anything will do, in my case I am using VLC as my external player so I'll just put: "VLC" in there Paste the template into your 'players' section and edit the following: Now we add the video player you wish to use.įeel free to also check the wiki for this step.Ĥ.2. You should see something similar to this:Ĥ. In the system folder open playercorefactory.xml in your favorite text editor (I will be using Atom). Navigate to your * \kodi\system* folder (On windows its located (by default) in: 'C:\Program Files'). Just a quick guide for anyone who doesn't feel like using the default video player.
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