The Model X shares the big screen with the Model S. CarCinema fills it with YouTube while you charge.
The Model X shares its infotainment with the Model S: a 17-inch screen that turned landscape with the 2021 refresh. CarCinema runs in the built-in browser on both generations.
Long Supercharging stops are where the big screen earns its keep: QR login takes seconds and the library is waiting exactly where you left it.
The Model X went on sale in 2015 with the same first-generation computer as the Model S of the time, MCU1, and kept it until early 2018. On those cars the browser is slow and Theater was never offered; CarCinema loads, with a wait before the first frame. Cars from 2018 to 2021 have the Intel MCU2 computer behind the tall portrait screen, and the browser is fine: video plays as a wide band across the middle of the screen.
The 2021 refresh (Plaid and Long Range) is the one with the 17-inch landscape screen and the AMD computer. On that car the video fills the width of the display and everything responds instantly. If you are not sure which computer you have, the Software tab on the car screen names it.
The Model X is the Tesla that travels with the most people in it, and a full car at a 30-minute Supercharger stop is exactly the situation this was built for. The front screen is big enough for the second row to follow from behind the front seats. On the refreshed car the second row also has its own touchscreen, a separate system with an app set chosen by Tesla that varies by market and software version; CarCinema runs on the front screen.
Sound goes through the car’s speakers, and the Model X has a lot of them. Keep the volume on the scroll wheel where it is for music and the whole cabin hears the video without anyone in the back leaning forward.
A Model X typically charges from 10 to 80 percent in 30 to 40 minutes, longer than the smaller cars, which is why owners of this model watch whole episodes rather than clips. Playing video in Park uses the screen and the media computer and costs a small amount of range per hour; while the car is on a charger it is not something you will notice.
Copy a YouTube link and send it to the bot on Telegram. From your phone, in five seconds.
The video downloads and converts to a format the Tesla browser can play.
Open carcinema.app on the Tesla screen, log in with a QR code and press play.
Not directly in the browser: Tesla blocks video playback. CarCinema gets around that block, so YouTube videos you send to the bot play on the Model X screen the same way they do in every other Tesla.
Every car with a working browser. Playback is smoothest on MCU2 and newer infotainment, including every refreshed Model X. Cars from 2015 to early 2018 on MCU1 work, with a slower start.
Yes, it is a 17-inch display and the second row sees it between the front seats. The refreshed Model X also has a rear touchscreen, but that is a separate system with its own apps; the browser runs on the front screen.
No. You open carcinema.app in the built-in browser and log in with a QR code.
Log in with a QR code and watch your first video a minute later.
Open the appOpen your library