[Simon]

I want to be able to stream video (or audio) from one of my Macs to another over my Airport WLAN at home. Recently I read that VLC under Windows lets you do exactly that rather easily. Can anybody tell me if I can do that with the OS X version of VLC?

I was planing to put in a DVD, play MPEG4 movies or audio files on my normal work machine at home, but have the actual content streamed over my Airport network to the mini feading my projector and stereo system. That way I wouldn't need to first copy content over to the mini, but I would just stream it on the fly.

Will OS X VLC allow me to do that? If not, is there a simple (and possibly free) alternative (not QTSS because I would also like to stream DVD content)?

[analogika]

You can use VLC ON THE MINI to open files anywhere on the network and stream them from there.

You can also use DVD Player ON THE MINI to open the VIDEO_TS file from a DVD mounted on another machine and play that over the network.

All you need is for the machine you wish to stream FROM to have Personal File Sharing turned on in the Sharing/Services System Preferences. You can then log on to that machine via the Finder from another.

E.g. if the machine name in the Sharing preference is Simons-iMac-G4, you connect to Simons-iMac-G4.local, using the user and password from that machine, and select which volume you wish to access - internal hard drive, that user's home folder, or any mounted optical disk, including DVDs.

[Simon]

Yeah, the nicest and most obvious solution is of course the one I forgot to think about. Thanks for reminding me how easy it is to use a Mac.