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is there a way to watch pirated shows/movies together? (feddit.nl)

submitted 10 months ago by Getallen@feddit.nl to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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.

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[-] TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.ml 67 points 10 months ago

Plex has that option.

Not sure if jellyfin has it

[-] ENipo@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

Jellyfin has it too!

[-] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

Jellyfin's syncplay is pure joy.

[-] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Does jellyfin have console apps? PS4, Xbox etc

[-] Swimmerman96@beehaw.org 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[-] 1hitsong@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

We'll get it added to Roku one day 🤞

[-] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 9 months 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.

[-] Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social 39 points 9 months ago

I use SyncPlay since it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

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!

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[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

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

[-] drphungky@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months 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.world 4 points 9 months 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.world 2 points 9 months 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.

[-] jacktherippah@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

We stream via Discord.

[-] coughrelief@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Recommending vencord to bypass the stream quality nitro restrictions

[-] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months 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.

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Multiplex is a Linux application to stream torrents and share them with other friends.

[-] Confetti_Camouflage@pawb.social 6 points 9 months ago

I want to try this one but my friends are on Windows.

[-] atyaz@reddthat.com 14 points 9 months ago

Never heard this sentence before

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Same. My bro is on Windows.

[-] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Too bad. May it will gget a windows build too one day ;)

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.ee 3 points 9 months 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.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There are opensource chat options with no limits. Notably, Jitsi. No need to go proprietary.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

+1 for Jitsi. Great suggestion.

[-] kyle@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Neat! I've never actually had to look for others, I just know Zoom and Teams because of work lol

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 months 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.xyz 2 points 9 months 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.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] Staple_Diet@aussie.zone 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Peario for Stremio is an option.

Reddit tutorial; https://www.reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/comments/g6klce/remote_addon_watch_together_with_friends_with_the/

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.zone 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.ee 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.social 6 points 9 months 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.

[-] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] MakerThe11@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months 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

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

I'm too lazy to read if someone already posted this, but yes you can, with Plex: https://support.plex.tv/articles/watch-together/

[-] b0gl@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Use discord or something and screen share the movie in a call?

[-] amio@kbin.social 3 points 9 months 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.

[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 5 points 9 months ago

Who would report you if Its just you and your friend?

[-] fhein@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months 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..

[-] sag@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You can do this with mpv, along with the help of some other tools. Watch this video by bugswriter.

[-] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I used to use a website called TwoSeven.xyz

[-] tjarod11@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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.