Stream from Xbox to phone

My understanding is that Smartglass will let you use your phone to control movie playback on your Xbox connected to your TV. It doesn't allow you to stream movies from the Xbox to your phone. Certainly not when you're out of range of your home wifi network.

You may be able to stream movies via Xbox Movies but that's a pay per view service. It's streaming from Microsoft's servers, not your Xbox.

Hey Drifter,

It depends on how you are streaming the media to your console.

Traditional Play-To works on your home network, so I don't believe it should touch your Internet services. If you phone is connected to the same WiFi network as your console, then it shouldn't have to use any internet data.

If you're using some other means like Skydrive, then it would be Internet dependent.

you can use your smart phone to stream from you NAS storage or home PC...download a program called "bubble UPNP" then your smart phone works like a remote....select video from library to play...select xbox one as the playback device...wala...instant streaming.

You can't use it to stream media from the Xbox, because it doesn't connect to the Xbox using Bluetooth. It only connects using the voice chat protocol.

You can only use it to stream music from your phone or other Bluetooth devices.

Are you trying to stream it directly from the Xbox, or from something else?

If it is from say a phone or tablet, try using Allcast app, its free from the Play Store, that casts to an Xbox.

If it is from your Xbox, test your network speed, to stream a 4k movie ( download speed ) you need 25mbps min, to stream it from your xbox to a TV ( upload speed ) at least 6mbps is the bare minimum, more is highly recommended.