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Streaming Video from Mac to iPhone iPad without Taking Up Space

There's no doubt that watching videos on iPhone iPad is one of the greatest pleasures of these Apple apparatuses. However, video files take a lot of space. Your video collection on your Mac is quite large and keeps growing. If you count your family videos, the collection becomes even larger. How do you put your videos from Mac into iPhone iPad with limited storage capacity? Have you ever wished you could watch all your video content from Mac on iPhone iPad?

Fortunately, Air Playit offers a very nice solution. It brings the coolest way to watch videos on iPhone iPad, streaming video from Mac to iPhone iPad without taking up space. So you never have to worry about the storage space not enough.

With Air Playit, you can have access to a much wider variety of videos than you could ever fit on a portable device. It can stream videos in almost any format to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Live conversion allows you to play videos without having to convert them upfront. You can start watching them almost immediately!

Step-by-Step Guide of Streaming Video from Mac to iPhone iPad

The Air Playit works in two parts. A piece of server software sits on your desktop computer (both Windows and Mac OS are supported). The other component is an iPhone/iPad/iPod app that connects to the server and lets you browse and play video. Here is an illustration of streaming video from Mac to iPhone.

Step One: Firstly, download & install Air Playit server to Mac, and Air Playit client on iPhone. Run the Air Playit server. Make sure the server is in Start condition. You can add your video by clicking "Add Folder" so that you can stream the video to your iPhone via Air Playit server.

Streaming Video from Mac to iPhone iPad Step 1

Step Two: Run App Client on iPhone, and add server. Client app can automatically discover the local network by Bonjour Server. If sometimes the client app can't find the Bonjour connection information, you need to specify the server address manually or close the firewall for a try.

Streaming Video from Mac to iPhone iPad Step 2

Step Three: Browse the folders under the server; click "Play" to watch videos on iPhone. Now you have successfully streamed videos from Mac to iPhone. Moreover, Air Playit can wirelessly stream almost all videos to iPhone iPad via WiFi and 3G/4G network without conversion and sync.

Streaming Video from Mac to iPhone iPad Step 3

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