so is it possible to watch pirated shows and movies together over the internet? me and my friends cant meet up because we’re hours away from eachother.
We mostly use discord since it’s difficult to convince people to sign up for new services… Have to do a workaround to stream desktop audio on Linux, since their client still only supports that for Windows, but other than that it usually works.
Tried https://twoseven.xyz/ a few times during a period when Discord streaming was lagging a lot. It supports desktop streaming with a browser plugin, and sync watching on various streaming services. As far as I can remember it worked ok but had a few issues, though that was a while ago so those might’ve been fixed.
Except Plex insanely makes you stream it to each person, instead of letting people download and sync streaming. So good luck doing it with more than two people unless you’re watching a 1080p movie on a beast with an amazing Internet connection.
plex let’s you choose the target bitrate. 1080p can be done at 8Mbps so a cable connection with 30Mbps up could do 3 with some spare room. like yeah if you are rural or just stuck with dsl.
but generally people with their own media library to share have okish net
Yeah but I don’t want to watch at 1080p with bad sound! It’s just annoying because they already let you download off your friends servers. You’d think it would be super easy to program as an option.
If you really want to jump through hoops, do it in VRchat. Their biggest worlds are movie worlds. I’ve spent a 1000 hours in that game just watching movies for free with friends.
Discord streaming is the way. Most of my friends don’t care about super high quality either so a little compression doesn’t hurt. Plus there are ways to bypass the 720p restrictions, too.
Can confirm group-watching with Plex. I did this quite a few times with some friends during the darkest initial pandemic times and it’s a great way to connect with distant friends. I also recommend, as someone mentioned, a simultaneous discord chat. We exclusively watched horrible movies and MST3K’d the shit out of them.
Since Jellyfin v10.6.0, it’s had a feature called SyncPlay allowing multiple users to watch the same thing at the same time (coordinates pauses, fast forwarding/rewinding, and all that between clients). I’ve used it and it worked like a charm, although I did find that not all clients support it.
You can use https://watchparty.me as long as your upstream bandwidth is fast enough for amount of friends * bitrate, or you can selfhost it or get a premium account so their servers stream your file (so you only have to have bandwidth for a single stream yourself).
WatchParty works fine for watching YouTube together but uploading to your friends requires Chrome. I’ve also never been able to get video working with mkv files. Webm works but I’ve never seen a release in a webm container.
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Stream on discord, if you don’t like that use jitsi, or any end to end video streaming platform like signal
We mostly use discord since it’s difficult to convince people to sign up for new services… Have to do a workaround to stream desktop audio on Linux, since their client still only supports that for Windows, but other than that it usually works.
Tried https://twoseven.xyz/ a few times during a period when Discord streaming was lagging a lot. It supports desktop streaming with a browser plugin, and sync watching on various streaming services. As far as I can remember it worked ok but had a few issues, though that was a while ago so those might’ve been fixed.
Also tried to get https://sfu.mirotalk.com/ working but for some reason video wouldn’t show up…
If you are using Plex to host your media this feature is built right into plex. Watch together on Plex
Except Plex insanely makes you stream it to each person, instead of letting people download and sync streaming. So good luck doing it with more than two people unless you’re watching a 1080p movie on a beast with an amazing Internet connection.
plex let’s you choose the target bitrate. 1080p can be done at 8Mbps so a cable connection with 30Mbps up could do 3 with some spare room. like yeah if you are rural or just stuck with dsl.
but generally people with their own media library to share have okish net
Yeah but I don’t want to watch at 1080p with bad sound! It’s just annoying because they already let you download off your friends servers. You’d think it would be super easy to program as an option.
If you really want to jump through hoops, do it in VRchat. Their biggest worlds are movie worlds. I’ve spent a 1000 hours in that game just watching movies for free with friends.
i was contemplating doing it in gmod.
You can do this with mpv, along with the help of some other tools. Watch this video by bugswriter.
We stream via Discord.
Discord streaming is the way. Most of my friends don’t care about super high quality either so a little compression doesn’t hurt. Plus there are ways to bypass the 720p restrictions, too.
Recommending vencord to bypass the stream quality nitro restrictions
Plex has that option.
Not sure if jellyfin has it
Jellyfin has it too!
Jellyfin’s syncplay is pure joy.
Does jellyfin have console apps? PS4, Xbox etc
Can confirm group-watching with Plex. I did this quite a few times with some friends during the darkest initial pandemic times and it’s a great way to connect with distant friends. I also recommend, as someone mentioned, a simultaneous discord chat. We exclusively watched horrible movies and MST3K’d the shit out of them.
Since Jellyfin v10.6.0, it’s had a feature called SyncPlay allowing multiple users to watch the same thing at the same time (coordinates pauses, fast forwarding/rewinding, and all that between clients). I’ve used it and it worked like a charm, although I did find that not all clients support it.
We’ll get it added to Roku one day 🤞
Multiplex is a Linux application to stream torrents and share them with other friends.
I want to try this one but my friends are on Windows.
Too bad. May it will gget a windows build too one day ;)
Same. My bro is on Windows.
Never heard this sentence before
You can use https://watchparty.me as long as your upstream bandwidth is fast enough for amount of friends * bitrate, or you can selfhost it or get a premium account so their servers stream your file (so you only have to have bandwidth for a single stream yourself).
WatchParty works fine for watching YouTube together but uploading to your friends requires Chrome. I’ve also never been able to get video working with mkv files. Webm works but I’ve never seen a release in a webm container.
https://opentogethertube.com/
Can’t do .mkv unfortunately which is what almost everyone uses on the high seas but if it’s .mp4 or YT you’re golden.
Peario for Stremio is an option.
Reddit tutorial; https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/comments/g6klce/remote_addon_watch_together_with_friends_with_the/
Do I have to download the media or can I stream it straight from Stremio/Torrentio?
Edit: peario.xyz does not work when I tried it with a friend. I think you both must have Torrentio, which I think is stupid and a little pointless
Stream
Edit: if using Stremio+Torrentio it is worth paying for something like Real Debrid. Negates needing VPN and much faster streaming rate.
That combo is what made me drop my Plex server plus softwarr… That and the lack of storage 🤣
I use SyncPlay since it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Wow, that’s great! Watched a video of what it looks like and this is very close to what I’d want from a watch party!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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Another one I haven’t seen mentioned
Of your into self hosting.
https://github.com/m1k1o/neko
Basically, it’s an always streaming virtual web browser.
I’m too lazy to read if someone already posted this, but yes you can, with Plex: https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/
When I had the quest 2 we did it with an app, don’t remember if it was Big screen or what but the experience was great.
I used to use bigscreen before my quest broke, altho my friends are too broke to buy new tech.
BETTER. YET.