# Anyone rcommend a good app for streaming movies from PC to Ipad?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-rcommend-a-good-app-for-streaming-movies-from-pc-to-ipad/683330>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-rcommend-a-good-app-for-streaming-movies-from-pc-to-ipad/683330 "2014-03-10T04:38:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-rcommend-a-good-app-for-streaming-movies-from-pc-to-ipad/683330/1 "2014-03-10T04:38:32Z")

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What it says on the tin.

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**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-rcommend-a-good-app-for-streaming-movies-from-pc-to-ipad/683330/2 "2014-03-10T04:45:00Z")

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I use Streamtome. Works well, and I have yet to find an unsupported format, other than DRM content.

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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-rcommend-a-good-app-for-streaming-movies-from-pc-to-ipad/683330/3 "2014-03-10T07:38:42Z")

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I love [Plex](https://plex.tv/), but if all you’re wanting to do is stream a few movies on your PC it might be overkill. On the other hand, it’s a really wonderful and mature product with a huge user base.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-rcommend-a-good-app-for-streaming-movies-from-pc-to-ipad/683330/4 "2014-03-10T16:02:22Z")

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Since this is a software question, moved to IMHO (from Cafe Society).