MultiView: Watch Up to Four Live Streams at Once

MultiView is a Premium feature that lets you watch up to four live channels at once in a split-screen layout — not picture-in-picture, but dedicated panes you control on screen. You configure sessions on your phone and launch them on Android TV, so your big screen always has the right streams ready without extra setup.

Choosing your layout

When you create or edit a session, you pick one of three display layouts. The layout sets how many slots you get and how they're arranged on screen.

You can switch a session's layout anytime from the session editor on your phone. Changing the layout adjusts slot count — if you reduce slots, channels in removed positions are cleared.

How MultiView works

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Watching Multiple Streams at Once with MultiView

Learn how to open MultiView from the live TV player, add up to four streams, tap to focus a pane, and rearrange your layout — perfect for sports, news and multi-camera setups.

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MultiView is built around sessions — named groups of up to four channels you want to watch together. You create and manage sessions on iOS or Android, then launch any saved session from the MultiView tab on mobile or directly from MultiView on Android TV.

1. Open the MultiView tab in GridStreamr on your phone.
2. Tap 'New Session' and give it a name (e.g. 'Sunday Sports', 'News Desk').
3. Choose a layout: Dual (2 streams), Main + 2 (3 streams), or Quad (4 streams).
4. Tap each slot to assign a channel from any of your Xtream sources or Smart Collections.
5. Save the session — it syncs to your account instantly.
6. On Android TV, open MultiView. Select a saved session and all streams start in your configured layout.

Interacting with the grid

Once a session is playing, each pane is independent. Tap or click any pane to focus it — that stream's audio plays and the others mute. On Android TV, navigate between panes with the directional pad. Long-press a pane on mobile to swap its channel without ending the session.

• Up to 4 simultaneous streams (Quad layout) from any Xtream or Smart Collection source.
• Focused pane plays audio; all others mute automatically.
• Swap individual channels without rebuilding the whole session.
• Sessions sync across devices — configure on phone, watch on TV.
• Create as many named sessions as you need for different use cases.
• Change a session's layout anytime from the session editor on mobile.

Great use cases for MultiView

• Sports: follow four matches or four camera angles of the same event simultaneously.
• News: monitor multiple news channels in parallel without switching.
• Multi-language: watch the same event on feeds in different languages side by side.
• Home monitoring: keep live camera streams visible while watching other content.