I would like to browse video website on my iPhone and start watching videos on my Mac. I don't want to use Airplay as my Wifi connection is not good. I would like to just send an URL to a video player like VLC on my Mac which streams the video itself.
IOS – n App for Browsing on iOS and watching on OS X
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Related Solutions
Get Air Video from the App store. Install the client on your Mac and point it to the directory with your videos. The iPad client will give you the option of streaming it or saving it on the iPad
Yes, VLC for OS X provides this level of control.
If you go into VLC » Preferences [aka. ⌘+,] » Hotkeys you'll find that you can associate hotkeys for both actions – Faster (Fine) and Slower (Fine) – and more:
You can find plenty of options here:
- set them up the way you were used to using them on Windows,
- set a hotkey for resetting playback speed back to normal etc.
Note: If your newly assigned hotkeys don't seem to be taken into account, you might need to quit VLC and start it again.
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Best Answer
This is the sort of thing that Handoff (part of Continuity) would ideally be used for, but third-parties have been very slow to adopt it. And you presumably want something better than pasting URLs into the built-in Notes app, with iCloud syncing turned on.
If it's always URLs you want to send, your best bet is possibly a third-party tool for sharing and syncing clipboard items between iOS and Mac, such as Cloud Clip.