Best way to stream videos from a computer on the same local network?

by lemon07r

I have a shield TV hooked up my 4k TV setup but whenever I want to watch one of my big 10gb+ movies I always run into issues no matter what video player I try to use. Ive tried vlc, kodi, and even mxplayer through sideloading the apk. It's a pain to save things to an USB to play movies too because my shield is only 16gb so at this point I'd rather play things directly from my PC. What's the best method to stream videos from my desktop to my shield tv? I have them both on the same local network, the desktop by wire and the shield on a strong 5ghz wireless signal. My USB sticks are all so slow that I think putting things over through the wifi will have higher throughput anyways.

EDIT: Tried Plex as suggested. Even though it was horrid for playing things locally on my shield off my USB it turned out to be a perfect solution for playing things off my PC like a media server.

teedubyeah

Setup a Plex server

emre1393

simple, share a folder from windows, then enable smb 1.0 support on windows 10. you can access every file in shared folder with every device in same network.

i have a strong and stable 5ghz wifi network. i can stream bluray iso (50gb) from wifi connected laptop to wifi connected mi box without problem. i am using kodi, it makes easier everything after setting up correctly.

flipside1o1

personally i prefer Emby over plex but then at the time I found Emby to be more flexible and open, this may have changed in the last few years

nooneisreal

Is running an ethernet cable from the Shield to the router out of the question?
I have 2 Shields (one bedroom, one living room) and both are hardwired to the home network with gigabit ethernet.

I have my movie/tv collection on another computer on the network, also connected with gigabit ethernet.
The movies/tv shows are shared via an NFS server I have running on the computer.
On both Shields, I stream my collection through Kodi. Some of my movies are 4K and around 60GB in size. They play smoothly without buffering.

If you can, try a wired connection and see if that fixes the issue.

Cremedela

Did you try to cast it using Videostream?