Enter the IP address into the URL bar of the web browser exactly as provided from VLC (example: ), this loads the VLC upload client running in iOS into a web browser.

From any computer (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, etc) open any web browser.

1b: Copying the Movie Files Wirelessly to iOS from Any Computer With the VLC upload server now active, you can transfer video content from a computer easily, that’s what we’ll cover next.

Make note of the IP address that is listed (in this example, ).

Look for the “WiFi Upload” switch and toggle it to the ON position.

Tap on the Cone icon in the upper corner.

Open VLC app on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and tap on “Done” to skip the intro (or flip through it and learn a bit more about VLC if you want).

Get VLC for free from the App Store on your iOS device.

The only requirement is that the computer with the video files and the iOS device are on the same wi-fi network. This works to transfer any movie file to any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, from any computer.

1: How to Copy Video Files to iOS with VLC Because VLC relies only on a web browser to copy the files to iOS, you can initiate the file transfers from any machine too, whether it’s a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer, and whether or not it’s your own PC or someone else’s also doesn’t matter, the whole process circumvents the traditional iTunes method for copying the video to iOS – it’s that versatile. Additionally, VLC can copy or stream video files stored on DropBox and Google Drive, but that’s a topic for another tutorial.

While we’re using an MKV file as an example here, VLC supports just about every video file format, so you can copy over and watch MKV, MPG, MP4, AVI, DIVX, WMV, MOV, and just about anything other movie you may come across. We’ve discussed VLC for iOS before for it’s versatility, but this time we’re going to walk through using VLC and a web browser to transfer video files from a computer to an iOS device – wirelessly – and then play that HD movie file directly on the iPhone or iPad.

VLC plays just about every movie file format imaginable, plus it has it’s own filesystem of sorts for iOS that lets you easily copy over video files to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, without having to use iTunes. Fortunately, there’s VLC, a free video playing staple from the desktop world that is available for iOS. Sure Videos.app stores iTunes movie downloads and can play a fair amount of video formats copied over to it, but there are many movie formats not supported by Videos, or that just don’t play that well in the client. If you’ve ever wanted to watch a high resolution movie like an MKV, MPEG, or AVI file that’s currently on a computer, but on an iPhone or iPad, you know that the default iOS Video app isn’t always going to cut it.

Pc mkv mobile movie