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.

    • Swimmerman96@beehaw.orgEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    If you are using Plex to host your media this feature is built right into plex. Watch together on Plex

    • drphungky@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • LordKitsuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        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

        • drphungky@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    What about you all torrent the same file, hit play at the same time and use some audio / video chat for the rest? Discord, MS Teams (lol), Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, whatever is available…

    • kyle@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I mean if you use that software, you can just share your screen.

      Notably, the free versions of Zoom and Teams only allow 40 minutes if you have more than 2 people in the call.

      • chepox@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        We have tried this before and usually the video and audio quality go to shit. Source is 1080p streamed video looks like 144p. Tried Zoom, Jitsi, Teams, Telegram, FaceTime. All with very similar results. So far the best solution has been sharing a copy of the file and playing on the count of three.

    • chepox@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is what we do. We have tried using a shared player with limited success because we all have different setups (PC connected to TV, Plex Streaming, Apple TV Stream, etc). But I am always looking for a more elegant answer. Hopefully someone here might have some new tech.

    • atlasraven31@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

      • Staple_Diet@aussie.zoneEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Stream

        Edit: if using Stremio+Torrentio it is worth paying for something like Real Debrid. Negates needing VPN and much faster streaming rate.

        • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          That combo is what made me drop my Plex server plus softwarr… That and the lack of storage 🤣

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    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).

    • Confetti Camouflage@pawb.socialEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • MakerThe11 @lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    U can use syncplay without jellyfin, there is a couple watch party rooms aswell in the internet but sadly most limit the free option to 720p

    • amio@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      This technically breaks ToS so you could land yourself in trouble. That being said, lots of people do it all the time, so it can’t be that risky.

  • ffhein@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    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…