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The built-in feature allows you to send videos, music, photos, and browser tabs to the TV through a media player via Wi-Fi, without cables and flash drives. An important aspect is that in many applications, the phone acts as a remote control: you select a video or movie, "cast" it to the media player, and then the playback continues on the TV while you pause, rewind, and switch content from the smartphone. Compared to simple screen mirroring, Google Cast (Chromecast) is usually more stable and convenient for streaming since the phone can be used for other purposes in the meantime. Unlike Miracast, it often works better with Google services and the Chrome browser, but it requires a proper Wi-Fi connection and one network for the devices. Typical use cases: quickly play YouTube for kids on the TV, "transfer" a movie from an online cinema to the big screen, show guests an album from Google Photos, display a Chrome tab with a website or instruction, as well as launch a presentation from Google Drive/Slides at a meeting without a laptop and HDMI.

The model of the CPU installed in the media player.

This information is mainly of reference value: the processor is selected in such a way as to provide certain practical characteristics (maximum resolution, support for certain standards, embedded applications, etc.). So when choosing, you should focus primarily on these specifications. However, if you wish, knowing the processor model, you can find detailed data on it and evaluate the capabilities of the media centre to work with resource-consuming applications. This can be useful, in particular, if you choose an Android model (see above) and plan to use additional software intensively — the set of applications for this OS is very extensive, and some of them are quite demanding on system resources.

Also note that CPU data is often specified for advertising purposes — to emphasize that the device has a fairly advanced chip from a well-known brand. Among the most common brands of such processors are Allwinner, Amlogic, Rockchip, Realtek.

The set of audio codecs supported by the device

Codec — from the phrase "Encoder-DEcoder" — in this case, the format used for encoding and compressing sound in digital form during storage/transmission and decoding — during playback (digital sound is basically impossible without encoding, and compression allows to reduce the amount of data). Information about supported codecs is relevant primarily for assessing whether the player will be able to work with sound in a particular video file. The fact is that even in video files of the same format (see below), sound can be compressed by different codecs; and if the player supports the file format, but does not support the codec, sound playback will become impossible.

Theoretically, these rules are also relevant for audio files and online broadcasts (all formats — TV, video, audio). However, in fact, when working with such content, you can ignore codec data. So, for each audio file format, usually, its own standard codec is used, and file type support automatically means codec support. Broadcasts usually use generally accepted audio decoders like MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, which are practically guaranteed to be supported by any modern player designed for such broadcasts.

As for specific codecs, detailed information on them can be found in special sources, however, with the standard use of devices, such details are usually not needed.