Serious Problem: Please help me...

[NewLearner]

Hello all,

I'm sorry to be creating a thread on this but I searched and couldn't find any help!

This is my serious problem:

The PC that I've been streaming files to my iPad has crashed. The hard drive in the PC is now dead. I've tried everything I can to repair the hard drive, but nothing works. Since the PC hard drive is dead the only copy I have of some of my videos is stored on my iPad inside VLC Streamer... :'( :'(

How can I copy the files from the VLC Streamer on my iPad to my new PC? I guess I want to "stream" the files back to my new PC.

I'd really appreciate your advice :'(

[Confused Vorlon]

if you connect your iPad to the PC, then you should be able to browse files through iTunes.

you'll see the converted files in there. 

however - be warned, the format is a directory full of tiny chunks of files (HLS Streaming format). It'll take some wrangling to convert that back to normal movie file format.

cheers,

rob

[NewLearner]

Thanks Vorlon!

I just tried posting a message in this thread but for some reason it didn't work.

I can connect the iPad to my PC running iTunes now with the iPad cable but I have no idea how to copy the files off VLC Streamer and onto the iPad...

[Stephen Brown]

I do not know whether this will work on modern iPads, but........
Several years ago, I needed files back from an old 2GB iPod. I discovered that all photos and music files were available in the directory into which the iPod had been backed up on my iMac (rather than a PC) using iTunes. There was no indication from the name as to what each of the files was. I seem to recall that typically the name was a string of about 15  digits - certainly, there were no extensions. However, based on the file sizes, I was able to guess which were image files, which were music files (there were no videos in those days). And then I was able to open each in an appropriate app - and resave with a meaningful name.

You may be able to do something similar if you can backup the iPad somewhere and examined backed up files. But whether the backup will back up the files from within the VLC streamer app - as opposed to the vanilla iTunes files, I do not know.

Or, you could buy one of the apps that purports to allow you to extract files from an IOS device. You might find one that allows a 'trial' to see if it does what you want. I have never been persuaded that they would work properly, and have been too cheap to cough up!

Good luck  

[NewLearner]

Hello all, 

I’m still unable to find a way to copy my files off my iPad Mini to another device that are stored inside VLC Streamer Pro.

I’m very worried because the files stored on my iPad Mini are not stored anywhere else and this iPad Mini is beginning to have problems that indicate it'll be unusable soon which means I'll lose my files :'(

I’d really appreciate your advice :’(

[Confused Vorlon]

If you're on a mac, then you can use the finder to access the files and simply drag them to your Mac, then over to your new device.

Files will normally appear as a folder (in HLS format) which contains a bunch of movie 'chunks'

I don't know the windows equivalent, but it probably exists within iTunes.

[Confused Vorlon]

looks like you're on windows.

google 'how to access iphone files on PC' that should walk you through using iTunes

[NewLearner]

I'm on Windows 10 Pro.

My problem is this: Even after I backup VLC Streamer Pro to my Windows 10 PC using iTunes how will I be able to access the actual video files that are stored within VLC Streamer Pro? :(

[NewLearner]

Okay there's one important detail I somehow forgot to mention: 

The files are located on an iPad Mini that's running the very old iOS 12.5.7.

I'm going to try and connect the iPad Mini to my Windows 10 PC and access it with iTunes but I'm not sure if I'll actually be able to access the individual video files stored in VLC Streamer Pro on the iPad Mini...

[NewLearner]

Hello all, 

I'm still stuck in the same situation:

I’m still unable to find a way to copy my files off my iPad Mini to another device that are stored inside VLC Streamer Pro.

I’m very worried because the files stored on my iPad Mini are not stored anywhere else and this iPad Mini is beginning to have problems that indicate it'll be unusable soon which means I'll lose my files :'(

Is it possible to directly transfer files in VLCStreamer Pro from the old iPad to the new iPad?

I’d really appreciate your advice :’(