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Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by robbrown451 »

hauxir wrote: post #44
robbrown451 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very cool. I'd love to work with you to bring interesting apps to it. Also, not sure if you have put much effort into trying to synch YouTube very accurately (down to the 20th of a second or better), but if that is interesting or important to you, I've done a good bit of work with dealing with the inaccuracies of YouTube's timer via the API and I'd be glad to share my code as well as ideas for this. I've found I can…

Sounds interesting :) send me an email, it's on the page!

I'll be in touch!

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by holler »

jawns wrote: post #55
tyrust wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is like every other service that supports screen sharing, is it not?

Except that this service explicitly says it's for "watching movies or TV shows on Netflix together online."

justin.tv almost exclusively was for chatting/watching copyrighted videos/tv shows together online (later rebranded and sold for ~$1B as twitch.tv)

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by robbrown451 »

flingo wrote: post #66

I'm always disappointed when things like this aren't partially or fully open sourced. Makes me wonder what the profit model is, and when the thing is going to die forever.

I'm impressed when I see people actually build something that they believe in, rather than just work for the man.

This looks to me like more than someone could build in their free time while they work for a soul sucking corporation. I mean, maybe, but it's not possible for everyone. I hope he or she figures out a way of making a living at it.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by animalnewbie »

godelski wrote: post #58
kohtatsu wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Netflix is DRM'd anyway so it's a non-starter. Try taking a screenshot of a Netflix stream. Not many people realize it'll just result in black pixels for that area.

Really? Because I just took these https://imgur.com/a/LvbVZtq

I see black. Maybe the OP wasnt clear?

This is a joke btw, if you see it as anything else, go see a counsellor when this corona thing is over.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by Malankov »

pfranz wrote: post #27
robbrown451 wrote: post #26

This is cool, I'm especially interested in YouTube synching so I can share videos with my daughter when she is at her moms. Also so she can chat with her friends while school is canceled and they can watch stuff together. (hopefully being able to talk to each other too?)

I'm surprised I haven't seen this before (or if it's been around, it hasn't been more popular). In person you often show people videos and via podcasts I often hear people haphazardly trying to play videos simultaneously.

I created Togethr.TV in 2013 (https://togethr.tv). People can watch videos together and chat (text/audio) and some other features. It never took off much unfortunately. I didn't touch the code since some time already but it is still working fine, the site is currently having about 15k monthly users.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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Post by Hydraulix989 »

29athrowaway wrote: post #77

I suggest removing the NES/SNES emulator part as it will cause Nintendo to send you a Cease and Desist letter. Or probably more.

If he's not hosting copyrighted ROMs himself, then it should be fine. Sony couldn't beat Bleem! in court:

https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/is...

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Post by code_duck »

lucb1e wrote: post #20
hauxir wrote: post #2

Been developing this platform for over a year. It allows you to create virtual rooms where you can chat with room members using webcam and microphone and run realtime apps that include: - Screensharing(useful for e.g. Netflix) - Cowatching video player - SNES and NES Emulators - Virtual cardtable - Poker with Playmoney - Quake 3 in-browser! - Synced YouTube player and many more coming.

OpenArena! Edit: NES games also don't work for me, I keep seeing "Load a ROM file to play a NES game!" but others in the room are playing. Firefox on Linux, this is. Can I register a ticket somewhere or are there debugging tips I could try myself?

I tried starting a room with the NES app and it told me to load a .nes file. However, the dialogue it launched was for photos (on my Android device). I don't think there's any way to select a .nes file from there.
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