

If all of that goes successfully, there is – to be fair – the benefit of having an offline video stored on the device, for watching while mobile. The alternative to all of this is to stream videos while on your home network. Furthermore, they have to hope that Zune will successfully transcode the file without crashing or freezing up. In contrast, vanilla Windows Phone 7 users are faced with the prospect of hoping the Zune Desktop will understand all of the various codecs in their video library. You can even load up a remote control web page on another device to save you getting up the change the volume! The application can play any video codec and can stream content to any other device on its network.

VLC Mirror is a new app for Windows Phone 7 that takes advantage of VLC's streaming prowess.įor those who don't know, VLC is something of a Swiss Army Knife in the world of video playback. One option for wirelessly browsing a home media library is the Plex app, but an older way of piping video around a home network is the Video LAN Client (VLC). Because of the limited way in which videos can be loaded onto Windows Phone devices, many users are looking for a way to watch their favourite files without having to use Zune transcoding and USB transfer.
