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Anyone remember turntable.fm? I know a bunch of replacements popped up, but nothing seemed to capture the same kind of magic...
Can you easily add the ability to share screen or application so I can watch a video file with a friend?
edit: alternatively since the URLs are hard to guess, you could have the creator of the watchparty specify a "auto-start ASAP after this many people have joined" number, so once Bob and Carol have joined, it just starts.
Also, youtube ads are going to disrupt the synchronized start, since each person is going to see a different ad (or no ad), but I think you've said elsewhere in the thread that there's no way to get around this without requiring a browser extension.
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I'm just confused. How is syncing supposed to work? 1. I start a "watch party" 2. I give the link to friends. 3. They click the button "Open the movie and check for autostart." 4. The video opens. At the beginning. Not where the other people are at. What is "Autostart"? You mention to "Open the movie directly and ask in the voice chat what time you should jump to". How is this different than just sharing the link to…
Ah okay. So that button is to dominant Open the movie and check for autostart." is just the preperation to check if the video starts correctly e.g. if in firefox autoplay is allowed. The actually watch party starts when the countdown hits zero, by redirecting everyone in the same moment to the video. "Open the movie directly and ask in the voice chat what time you should jump to" is when you missed the start. Syncing…
It's heavyweight and probably better to just sync by somebody shouting a timestamp, but if you need things synced there you go.