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.
Plex has that option.
Not sure if jellyfin has it
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 🤞
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!
Stream on discord, if you don’t like that use jitsi, or any end to end video streaming platform like signal
Use discord or something and screen share the movie in a call?
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.
Who would report you if Its just you and your friend?
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
I’m too lazy to read if someone already posted this, but yes you can, with Plex: https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/
I used to use a website called TwoSeven.xyz
You can do this with mpv with the help of some other tool. Video by bugswriter
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.
Another one I haven’t seen mentioned
Of your into self hosting.
Basically, it’s an always streaming virtual web browser.
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.
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.
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.
Period 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?
Stream
That combo is what made me drop my Plex server plus softwarr… That and the lack of storage 🤣