Aina IPTV

Cast and Picture in Picture

From your phone to the big screen

Found something on your phone and want it on the television? Aina sends it there with Google Cast or AirPlay. Want to keep watching while you answer a message? Picture in Picture keeps it in a corner.

Updated · By the Aina IPTV team

A film’s page in Aina on an iPhone, ready to play on the phone or send to the television

Google Cast

  • From an iPhone, an iPad, or an Android phone or tablet, to a Chromecast, a Google TV, or any television with Chromecast built in.
  • The Cast button appears in the player’s top bar whenever a Cast device is on your network. Choose it, pick the television, and the stream plays there.
  • Your phone becomes the remote: the system’s own Cast controls pause, seek and stop, and a pill over the phone’s picture says what it is playing on.

AirPlay

  • From an iPhone or an iPad, to an Apple TV or a television that takes AirPlay.
  • Channels and films that come as HLS or MP4 are sent with picture and sound. That includes an Xtream Codes line’s live channels, which Aina asks for as HLS on Apple devices.
  • Back on the phone, the stream carries on there from the same moment.
Aina’s own player, built on libVLC, plays all of these on the phone; what changes is what the receiving device can take. A panel’s MPEG-TS links are asked for as HLS when they are cast, which is why an Xtream line’s channels play.
What you are watchingGoogle CastAirPlay
An Xtream Codes line’s live channelPicture and soundPicture and sound
A film or episode in MP4Picture and soundPicture and sound
Another playlist’s MPEG-TS channelDoes not playSound only
A film in MKV or AVIUsually does not playSound only

For a stream the television cannot take, use the system’s Screen Mirroring on iPhone and iPad (from Control Center) or screen casting on Android, which send whatever is on the screen.

Picture in Picture

  • On iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets: leave the app while something plays, and it carries on in a small window over everything else. Its buttons play, pause and skip; a live channel shows as live.
  • On Apple TV: choose Picture in picture in the player’s options, then press the TV button to go to another app with the picture following you.
  • Come back to Aina and the picture returns to the full player; close the window and the stream stops, so it never plays on unseen.
  • Turn it off in Settings, then Playback, if you would rather the player stop when you leave.

Questions and answers

Yes, from an iPhone, iPad or Android phone or tablet, with the Cast button in Aina’s player whenever a Cast device is on your network.

AirPlay can carry the picture of HLS and MP4 streams. Other channels sent as MPEG-TS, and films in MKV or AVI, play in Aina’s own player, whose picture AirPlay cannot take; the system’s Screen Mirroring sends those.

Yes, on iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and Apple TV. A live channel plays on in the window, marked live.

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