Help? Wanting to stream movies/music from desktop to laptop

[killershroom1985]

Hi, I'm trying to stream my movies/music from my desktop to my laptop around the house. UltraVNC and PCAnywhere are too choppy to actually view a movie. Anyone have a solution? Do I have my settings wrong? I have plenty of bandwidth I would think. Wireless G and I get 5mbps on the wireless internet. (so I should get plenty more just connecting ON the network, right?)

 

[mundane]

For myself, I've found that just sharing the folder on the network and running the video player on my laptop works well.

 

[killershroom1985]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz
For myself, I've found that just sharing the folder on the network and running the video player on my laptop works well.

How would I do that?

I have my movies/music labeled as shared, but no idea how to connect to them with windows xp. I tried doing this with OS X and it wouldn't let me connect for some reason. (I'm on a macbook)

 

[mundane]

Oh. I'm not knowledgeable with macs, although I'd expect them to have a Samba client built in. Another option is something like "orb", which allows you to stream your media to nearly any web client. I'm fairly certain there's other applications that'll do the same thing, but I haven't worked with any of them.