How to stream movies too my Apple TV 4?

[fraser11]

I have a very large collection of digital movies on my laptop (Windows 10) and I was wondering if I am able to let my Apple TV access this and just stream the movies to that? I have tried VLC player but I can only get that working between my iPad and iPhone where one acts as a host with the films and the other connects and streams through 'Local Network'.

Any ideas?

 

[triley]

I'm pretty sure Apple TV does not allow local media streaming. It's pretty much just for online content and apps. It looks like there may be an overly complicated workaround using a DLNA App for your Ipad or IPhone and then broadcasting to the Apple TV through Airplay.

 

[jsmithepa]

Apple TV only wants to stream through iTunes. It wants all your videos imported into an iTunes library, sitting on a local iTunes server (either Mac or Windows), and the video formats it accepts is limited. Am going to assume lots of your videos will have to be re-encoded to make Apple happy, a lot of work, but it does give you that nice AppleTV interface.

Quicker, get a Roku, and run a DLNA server on your Win10. Some BluRay players have DLNA player built-in. Some smart and semi-smart TV too may have DLNA built-in.

 

[Jonas_11]

You can just buy and HDMI cable (If thats what you got) and hook it up to a tv