Excellent player, but has to transcode – VLC Streamer Pro Review

The good: player control is outstanding! It's as good as I've ever seen on any player, on any platform. App developer absolutely nailed the gesture-based control. Well done! The bad: as far as I can tell, this app has to create a transcoded version on my PC in order to stream. This doubles the amount of storage required for a given video, so that a 4GB video requires 4GB transcoded version, for instance. Multiply this by the number of vids on the hard drive, and…you get the idea. Additionally, the transcoding takes too long. My Core i7 CPU, running at 100%, requires 10-15 minutes per GB. (I realize this app can start streaming almost as soon as it starts transcoding, but I don't want the excess wear on my hard drive armature as it is forced to shuttle between what's written and what's being written. And there's still the mentioned drawback of doubling the storage space needed.) I would LOVE this app if it could stream on the fly!
Review by Filmeng on VLC Streamer Pro.