My mom is in a nursing home with vascular dementia and only has mobility in one arm. It’s hard for her to do things and it would be nice if I could put on movies for her. Would this be possible? I don’t know much about vpns, but I figured I would ask. If it’s possible, but super complicated, then I might not even bother. Would be nice though!
I think what you want to do could best be done with a VNC connection. I use VNC viewer on iPad. Honestly I don’t know if there is an iOS server app for iPads and I don’t think there is after a little research.
On a laptop, you could start a VNC server session and control it remotely with a VNC viewer, giving you capability just as though you were sitting at the keyboard, allowing you to cue up any media you could access.
Not the answer you wanted, sorry. Perhaps another Redditor has a better solution.