The one I happened to use for this test was a 3hr video in AVI format which was about 1.5 GB.
You’re limited of course by the amount of free memory you have in your iPhone but depending on how you encode your videos and using formats supported by VLC, you can go mobile with a few full length videos to choose from. Once completed (spinning circle disappears) you can go back up to “All Files” in VLC (top choice) and your download(s) are there. So downloading is a little tedious depending on how big your files are but hang in there. I think at one point I shut the screen off and that suspended the download giving an error later. Don’t close down your iPhone during the download. (If you just click on the file itself it will stream and play) There is no progress bar, only the spinning circle at the top near the wifi strength indicator. Once you find your video you can initiate the download by clicking on the little downward arrow on the right hand side. Connecting at this point will put you in to your M圜loud shares. I use the static IP of my M圜loud to FTP - (192.168.1.10, username: admin, and of course my password). Once configured, this allows you to FTP to your M圜loud and download from there very easily. I had to go to the “Connect to Server” option, for FTP, farther down the “Local Network” screen.
I could not successfully download my test AVI file from here. When I do this both my M圜louds appear and I can at this point navigate to a video folder and stream a movie to my iPhone while at home. Using the VLC iPhone app, go to the “Local Network” setting (assuming you’re at home and connected via wifi to your network). I don’t know about the WD PHOTO app but if you download VLC to your iPhone and use it, you can use its FTP function to connect to your M圜loud and snag whatever videos you want for viewing later, also using VLC. You can download a video from your M圜loud to your iPhone and watch it later on a trip, on the plane, etc.
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