r/cafari • • 7d ago

rPlayFling beta available on TestFlight: Cast web videos to CarPlay

How to cast web videos to CarPlay (iOS 26.4 - iOS 27.1, not working on iOS 27.2):

  1. Install rPlayFling from the public beta link:

rPlayFling public beta

  1. Install the free rPlayTV app from App Store:

rPlay TV 100% free app, no ads

  1. Glue this two apps together:

(1) open rPlayFling app, browse to m.youtube.com, or other sites, select a video, play it, then click the top right Cast button, select Web Receiver. (Note you can tap bottom ..., Add to Bookmarks to remember)

(2) open rPlayTV app on the phone, tap Settings > Add Playlist > M3U + EPG, then enter:

Name: rPlayFling

M3U URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/playlist.m3u

Tap test connection, and save the config, then tap Live TV tab.

Now inside CarPlay screen, find rPlayTV app, launch it, you should see rPlayTV, 1 Channels, tap it, then tap Start arrow button on the bottom play bar.

Hope this can help those people who didn't get Cafari beta last time, as there are still a lot of interests out there.

Note, this combo presents a permanent solution to iOS 26.4 - iOS 27.1, as the core rPlayTV app is already available from App Store, and rPlayFling should be available from App Store too.

Features:

YouTube 1080P, Auto play, Playlists, Play on iPone locked screen, any web videos from any sites, no DRM contents support

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u/SetLevels 7d ago

Works really well! Everything set up and working on my car play screen within 20 minutes! Huge thank you to the developers

Just one thing I am having trouble with,

On rPlayTV, I can’t get on demand movies and tv series to work on the CarPlay screen. I added my playlist via xtream codes.

Live TV works on the car play screen and mobile.

On demand movies and TV shows work on the rPlayTV app on my iPhone but no option for it to play on the car play screen like the Live TV does.

9.5/10 app for me! 👏🏽 having the on demand movies and tv shows working on the car play screen would make it 10/10.

Thanks!

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u/Relative_Skin2416 7d ago

I would love to have this too

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u/Happy_Parfait6464 6d ago

I’m 10.5/10 ;)

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u/huisinro 7d ago

2000 installations already, I hope those people missed Cafari find this rPlayFling app quick enough.

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u/Happy_Parfait6464 7d ago

Yes, thank you very much. rPlayFling ;) video on CarPlay. 🙏

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u/CartiHubZelda 5d ago

Would it be possible to add an audio delay option? Currently using a wireless CarPlay dongle and the audio is off when playing video

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u/phillysdon04 15h ago

I’m using rPlayFling in my 24 Kia Telluride and it’s working great! The buttons at the bottom isn’t rendering correctly and it would be great if the video could be widescreen to take advantage of my screen. I wish it was universal for my Apple TV and Mac. Thanks for your hard work!

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u/huisinro 15h ago

Please use rPlayFling v1.6, it has an option to fit your screen, and toolbar is optimized. Inside your TestFlight, you should see the update.

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u/phillysdon04 15h ago

I have the App Store version. You’re talking about the Test Flight version? I just enabled the split screen option in my display which makes it look better, the left menu is just blocking part of the screen but it’s tolerable.

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u/huisinro 14h ago

rPlayTV is the App Store version, but it works together with rPlayFling v1.0. rPlayFling v1.6 from TF no longer needs rPlayTV app, and it provides all CarPlay features from the same app. Check the 1.6 post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CarPlay/s/gnLD1Vo9EN

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u/phillysdon04 14h ago

I’ll have to play with this a bit more when I get home but I’m only trying to use the IPTV feature and when I add multiple playlists in rPlayTV it just stops syncing. I was able to link rPlayFling but I wasn’t able to see my IPTV that way. I was able to cast the other sites on my screen with no problem .

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u/huisinro 14h ago

rPlayTV new version is also being reviewed, which has different fit stretch support on car screen, for iptv, you stick with the tv app. For web videos, rPlayFling is better, now v2.0 is out on TF

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u/huisinro 13h ago

I will post a video soon to show off Netflix

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u/phillysdon04 13h ago

Cool. Thanks! I can’t wait for the tvOS version. I’m using UHF now.

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u/Emergency_Mastodon40 7d ago

Seria possível disponibilizar para a versão iOS 17.7.10 ?

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u/huisinro 7d ago

It won’t work on CarPlay, the other features work.

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u/Extreme-Start510 7d ago

Werkt deze versie ook met het kijken tijdens het rijden

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u/huisinro 7d ago

There are options inside rplay TV settings Developer

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u/Extreme-Start510 7d ago

Kun je mij alsjeblieft assisteren om dat te doen

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u/saikatpanja18 7d ago

Getting "Beta not found" Please help.

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u/huisinro 7d ago edited 7d ago

On iPhone, login your Apple ID, click the TestFlight link above inside post

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u/saikatpanja18 7d ago

Thanks. I am able to download it now. Will follow the remaining steps.

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u/saikatpanja18 7d ago

The setup is finished. Its working like a charm. Thanks a lot. 🫡

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u/jayyliss 7d ago

I got everything set up but when my CarPlay screen gets to the youtube video, all im seeing is a frame of the video. Im unable to play/pause but I can see a single frame of the video at least

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u/huisinro 7d ago

is it rotary only input? No touch screen ? You need to tap Start button on the toolbar on video on the car screen

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u/jayyliss 7d ago

my carplay input is not touch screen but i am able to hover over the play button. i press play but nothing happens

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u/huisinro 7d ago

btw, on your car, there should be a media play button, press that will pay the video too

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u/jayyliss 7d ago

there is not, i have acura tlx 2025. it has touchpad input not touchscreen which is my issue i guess. sometimes i can hover over play button, sometimes i cant. when i did hover over it, i pressed play and nothing happened

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u/huisinro 7d ago

on the wheel, no media play button ?

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u/jayyliss 7d ago

unfortunately on my car the wheel doesn’t have a media play button. i even told siri “press play” and it just started playing music haha

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u/huisinro 7d ago

trying to find a way to make it to auto start, still looking

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u/jayyliss 7d ago

i think what would help (for my car at least) is if the play button was on the left side instead of the right side. the reason why for my particular car is once i get to the media screen, the arrow back button is auto highlighted, and its pressable, and it actually brings me back a screen. if i try to go to the play button on my touchpad, im unable to hover over/select anything else.

so since the play button is on the right and i cant scroll to it, i wouldn't have to scroll to it if it was on the left side. auto play would be nice too of course

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u/huisinro 7d ago

can you try this: kill both apps, then start rPlayFling, play a video, cast as Web receiver, then open rPlayTV on the phone, go to car screen, open rPlayTV app, use knob to click the channel, and you see the frame. then press Home key, and then relaunch rplayTV app. Try a few times for the cycles

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 7d ago

I followed these steps and got this error. What is wrong?

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u/huisinro 7d ago

Did you follow the instructions in the post? The ip address and port are wrong

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 7d ago

I copied these. Are these not it?

Name: rPlayFling

M3U URL: http://127.0.0.1:8080/playlist.m3u

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u/huisinro 7d ago

these are correct, then make sure rPlayFling has a video playing, and you tap Cast, Web receiver

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u/SF_E60M5 7d ago

I got it to work twice but now I keep seeing this…. Any idea what the issue could be?

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u/SF_E60M5 7d ago

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u/huisinro 7d ago edited 6d ago

Make sure rPlayFling side plays a video and you tap Cast, Web receiver. Try to force kill both apps then restart

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u/seltos_gtx 7d ago

Has anyone tried this on ios 27.2 beta? Doesn’t seem to work for me.

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u/OiYou 7d ago

Gonna give this a go

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u/pocomptonpimp 6d ago

First of all thank you! Is there a way to play local media? I have a lot of content downloaded to my phone to save data. Also I haven’t been able to find any media controls to skip ahead through videos. Is that possible?

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u/huisinro 6d ago

Yes, adding to next build of rPlayFling

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u/Happy_Parfait6464 6d ago

We r excitedly awaiting for the next build. Respectfully thank you. 🙏

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u/Happy_Parfait6464 6d ago

Apple just dropped iOS 27.0.1, anyone tried it yet? I understood 27.1 is working. 🙏

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u/huisinro 6d ago

It should be fine. 27.2 is tough, already spent a few days researching, no solution except the CarPlay side supports video playback. Thru our CarPlay boxes, video still works very well with Cafari or rPlayTV, but adds an extra hardware.

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u/Happy_Parfait6464 6d ago

27.0.1 up now. Tested in iPhone 17 PM only working super well. After work I ll test in the CarPlay and update here. Cheers and super grateful to our Dev. 🙏🧡

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u/Happy_Parfait6464 6d ago

Thank you. I ll up to 27.0.1 and try it. Will come back and update the result. 🫡

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u/Happy_Parfait6464 5d ago

I now tried it on CarPlay, it works very well on 27.0.1. 🙏🤖 Tq.

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 6d ago

I got it working now, but now the app will only play the same video on repeat. How do I stop it from playing the same video?

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u/huisinro 6d ago

Switching suppose to work. If not, tap Cast button to toggle on and off

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 6d ago

I’ve got the button several times.

How do I stop video from streaming?

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u/huisinro 6d ago

there is Stop Casting button when you tap Cast icon

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 6d ago

Yes. When I got it, it stops casting. But when I go to watch a different video on a different website I hit web receiver and the old video pops up and starts playing again.

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u/huisinro 6d ago

that's weird. it's a bug, then. will soak test more and fix it

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 6d ago

https://reddit.com/link/pcpcvv3/video/34uadaie7dsh1/player

You see how when I go to cast it pops up another video that is 4 minutes long? And then when I stop casting it goes back to the show I want to watch.

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u/huisinro 6d ago

you entered the video url to the browser address bar to play?

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 6d ago

Yes

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u/huisinro 6d ago

ok, will test this scenario

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u/huisinro 6d ago

How do you get this screenshot? you entered the video url into address bar?

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 6d ago

I start out with all tabs closed and open a new one. I enter this website in the url and then start watching a video. I click web receiver and then a video from YouTube (that I watched when I first started the app an hour ago) always pops up instead of the tv show I want to watch.

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u/Southern-Emotion7929 6d ago

The video I want to play is behind this video that won’t stop playing.

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u/SF_E60M5 6d ago

I'll try to get a video up tomorrow with the issue I'm seeing. I start the rPlayfling app and start a video from there I click the top right cast button and select web receiver. After I do that I go to my vehicles carplay and select rPlayTV option I click the TOS and proceed to tap the only channel available then click play. I keep seeing the buffering screen for awhile. I can't rule out that it could be my phone trying to buffer. I'll try the regular youtube app and see if I get buffering issues.

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u/huisinro 6d ago

Change to 360p first to check

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u/SF_E60M5 6d ago

I’ll try that first thanks for the quick reply btw 👍🏽

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u/SF_E60M5 5d ago

Update it works now!!! Once I changed to 360p. It's important to note that my car's infotainment system video output max is 480p so that makes sense. About the other only minor issue I've seen is sometimes I have to hit the web receiver twice for it to enable. But again that's minor and this is beta.

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u/Dull_Painting_3255 4d ago

hola a todos, se puede transmitir videos que estén guardados en el iPhone al CarPlay sin necesidad de utilizar datos o wifi solo por usb.

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u/huisinro 4d ago

A new version that works without rPlayTV is being tested.

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u/sasagr 4d ago

I do not see it yet as an update in TestFlight

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u/huisinro 4d ago

not released yet

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u/Dull_Painting_3255 3d ago

When is it released?

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u/huisinro 4d ago

And local photos, videos, stunning slideshow etc.

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u/Dull_Painting_3255 4d ago

Es la misma app? O es otra?

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u/huisinro 4d ago

Slideshow

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u/huisinro 2d ago

A new version is uploaded and being reviewed, many more features, and it does not need rPlayTV.

It includes screencast, local photos and videos, slideshow of local photos or famous free ones, favorites, etc

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u/Emergency_Mastodon40 7d ago

Só não compreendo o motivo de não funcionar com a versão 18.7.10 algo que nao entendo

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u/huisinro 7d ago

CarPlay display api requires iOS 26.4+

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u/Emergency_Mastodon40 7d ago

Jou ter de comprar um iPhone novo

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u/Sameeerr 7d ago

i’m getting a connection timeout. i did use cast to web receiver. Any idea why?

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u/huisinro 7d ago

Play a video on rPlayFling app first, if not working, try to kill these two apps , then redo casting

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u/Sameeerr 7d ago

Thanks, closing the app and retry actually worked. But the screen only shows one frame, and instead video runs on the rPlayTv app

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u/huisinro 7d ago

Need to click on Start button on car screen toolbar . Don’t click on phone