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Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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post #140

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Also Togethr.TV ( https://togethr.tv ). Created by me some years ago! People can watch videos together and chat (text/audio) and some other features.

The one about works with local files. For my purposes it's much better than YouTube.

It works with local files as well using the Streamer (Windows only) and it works with many more websites than YouTube as well.

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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…

If for some reason somebody joins late / gets kicked off, and you're watching something on youtube, youtube supports time-index URL fragments like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-SxcCO5d0#t=3m17s , and you could start a new watchparty with that URL. It's heavyweight and probably better to just sync by somebody shouting a timestamp, but if you need things synced there you go.

Implemented :D

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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post #159

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What is that? Can't even login

It's a corporate video sharing service in Office 365. Think Youtube for your company.

If you would be able to share a login with me, than I could check if it can be included. Login could be send to office365bingewatching@simon-frey.com

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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> To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends. I would call it "CoVid: watch videos together, remotely."

If he names it Covid...that name will be one of the most used names for a few months, at least.

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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post #166

There are already dozens of such sites (just search for alternatives to Kast or Rabb.it), why should we use this one? Are there any advantages over competition?

e.g. Compared to Kast it works directly in the browser without any additional software

Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

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post #156

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Is this just a chat web app then ?

No it synchronises the start of the video and allows to have a voice chat during the watch party.

So it's 1% as convenient as cytube.
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