There are many third-party apps that can help us easily import videos from computer to iPhone without iTunes. PlayerXtreme is a very popular media player on App Store. We highly recommend it if you are looking for an easy way to send videos from Windows PC to iOS device. It is free, easy to use, able to play almost all video files. It can help us transfer movies from PC to iPhone over Wi-Fi in blazing fast speed and we don’t have to worry about the file format incompatibility issue. For users who want to wirelessly transfer large size movies and videos from computer to iPhone without using data plan, it is the ideal app for you.
In this quick guide, we will show you how to upload videos in any format from your computer to iPhone through Wi-fi using PlayerXtreme.
Download the free player from previous linked page onto your iPhone before we get started.
Run the player on iPhone, switch to the Network tab from the bottom. Go to Add Files > From Browser, you will then get the file transfer addresses, an alphabetic address and a numeric address.
Make sure both iPhone and Windows computer are connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Open a web browser on your PC, type in the file transfer address and press Enter on your keyboard to visit the address. Use the numeric address if you can’t access the alphabetic address. After that, you will see the video upload web interface like this.
Simply drag and drop any videos, movies from your computer hard drive to the Upload box in your browser window to transfer them from PC to iPhone. After that, you will find the uploaded videos in the Library of the free video player app on iPhone.
Stream movies, music from PC to iPhone
If you only need to play the music and videos from your PC using your iPhone or iPad at home, you can also choose to stream movies and music from Windows computer to iPhone without copying them over. By doing so, you save a lot of storage space on your iOS device.
PlayerXtreme Extra
- Since files are copied from one device to another in the local network without using your actual internet connection, the file transfer speed is very fast.
- PIayerXtreme is able to run files in almost any video format including: 3gp, asf, avi, divx, dv, dat, flv, gxf, m2p, m2ts, m2v, m4v, mkv, moov, mov, mp4, mpeg, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, mpg, mpv, mt2s, mts, mxf, ogm, ogv, ps, qt, rm, rmvb, ts, vob, WebM, wm, wmv, iso, wtv, video_ts
- There are other two ways you can transfer your media files to iPhone iPad via iTunes File Sharing or shared network.
iPhone media transfer and player alternatives
nPlayer is a great alternative to PlayerXtreme, a powerful media player for iPhone iPad with optimized UI, powerful streaming technology. It also provides us the similar wireless file transfer solution to quickly upload audios and videos from our laptop or desktop to iPhone or iPad.