Want to Stream Video from Home to Office

[videostreamnoob]

I consider my technical skills advanced. I know computers inside and out. I am just getting into the streaming realm so, for that, I consider myself a noob.

I have a vast collection of movies that I would like to be able to stream from my home to my office. I have already figured out how to stream audio...that was relatively easy. I figured the transition from audio to video would be seamless, think again. Here are the facts:

- My main computer is a beast. i7 processor, 4GBs DDR3 memory, Windows 7 Ultimate, over 6.5TBs of total hard drive space

- My home internet connection is a constant 25/25

- My work internet connection is a T3 line

- I do not have a web server (and would prefer not to set one up if at all possible)

- All of my movies are copied from my own collection, no copyright infringement here

- I will not be offering this to others. This will only be for my enjoyment.

I was able to stream audio by using a third party application and port forwarding my router. Again, pretty simple once I started. My ultimate goal would be to find an application that would allow me to stream video in the same manner. If that is not possible, I would like some kind soul to walk me through the steps I would need to complete in order to stream from my home to my office.

Again, I am new to this so please be patient with me. If there is a step-by-step tutorial available, that would be perfect. Short of that, any detailed information you could provide would be much appreciated.

[Baldrick]

You could make a VPN network instead, use for example hamachi, https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/ , and then can you share files as a local network and play directly without any streaming. I use this and can play 1080p fine over 100mbit.


Or else can you stream using VLC, follow the wizard mode or search for a tutorial.

[videostreamnoob]

Thank you for the quick response. You are not the first person who mentioned LogMeIn. I use another third party application to remote access my home computer and that application has VPN functionality. I will look into that.

Additionally, I already have VLC and use that regularly for standard video/movie watching. I quickly looked in the app and did not see a Wizard Mode section. I saw Streaming... (Ctrl+S) but when I went into that section, I did not see anything referencing a Wizard Mode. Can you point me in the right direction?

[guns1inger]

Apparently your technical skills do not extend to using google - http://www.google.com.au/search?q=vlc+streaming+tutorial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=or...ient=firefox-a

[videostreamnoob]

Wow. Thanks for such a respectful response. Instead of getting into it with you, I'll just stop coming to this forum. If you are an indication of the kind of people in this forum, I feel sorry for both this site and you. Good Day.