Keep in mind that trial versions of commercial software only offer a limited set of features, or can only be used for a short period of time. That comes with the benefit of creating a video playlist on your home media server and play the same playlist on your smartphone via the VLC app. Let’s start with a selection of DLNA media server downloads for Windows that are available for free. 1 Skifta for android 2 iMedia Share DLNA app 3 Media House UPnP/ DLNA Browser 4 ArkMC DLNA UPnP Media Centre 5 AirPlay Free 6 Servers Ultimate Pro 7 Pixel. Meaning you can now stream videos from your local server or home media server from your Android smartphone. Toaster Cast Android UPNP/DLNA Server, Controller and Renderer vGet, Android App that can play videos embedded in websites on DLNA Renderers. It also support external subtitle file (SRT) Plato is an Android UPNP Client App that can play videos and audio. Supports all popular Video and Audio files.
This feature enables you to find music videos and movies stored on your home server. Pixel Media Server, Android UPNP/DLNA Media Server. It will also automatically seek out and find subtitles over the network, and has improved support for right-to-left and even more complex subtitles layout. It now supports the DLNA/UPnP, Windows network sharing, SFTP, FTP, and NFS protocols. Until now! The newly released VLC 2.0 has a feature much similar to its desktop version, the network browsing.
However, the VLC for Android experience has never been the same as the desktop version.
So much so, that when the beta version was released on Android, many went ahead to install it on their smartphone. VLC for Android has a new update, giving it a feature that made us (well, those of us who appreciates simplicity without compromise on top functionality) love it so much in the desktop space.