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Really cool! How do you make the streams start the same time for everyone?
I imagine when the countdown ends, it enables the autoplay and the movie starts.
With streaming video, I can pause, rewind and then continue. But in this case, that would no longer be in sync with where the others are. The biggest advantage of streaming is being able to take breaks and continue at any point in time. I’m not sure how well this platform would work if there are many people and each one decides to take a break at a separate time (making others wait if they wish to be somewhat in sync).
This may work better if participants pre-decide how many breaks will be taken and approximately at what times or points.
similar to netflixparty.com except: - it also supports prime/youtube/vimeo - it has an audio/video chat instead of a simple text chat - it doesn't require a chrome extension - it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) does it mean you can literally support other platforms without any integration?
As written ion the page, it would be able to support any website on the internet, as it does a simple redirect to the website on countdown 0. What I want to provide is an auto start and a jump to timecode 0. All platforms that allow that via query parameters can be supported by binge together :D
A solution could be to stop the movie for everyone, get the timecode. Send everyone the new timecode and start the movie from there after the countdown.
(heck, this could even be a sync/break feature. If someone’s internet connection gets disrupted everyone can stop and sync. Or if they want a movie break, they can do it like this.)
My friends and I do this through Discord. One person shares their screen playing netflix/disney/whatever and then everyone just hangs out in voice and watches together. It's a really seamless experience and the re-encoding is usually not a problem, action scenes can get a little blocky but the quality is really pretty great.
Whenever I tried this, HDCP or similar DRM kicked in and the video was blacked out. How did you get around it?
Other apps/browsers are limited to 720P and don't use hardware-level Content Decryption Modules
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Whenever I tried this, HDCP or similar DRM kicked in and the video was blacked out. How did you get around it?
I've never encountered this at all! Honestly I've never in my life had any problems with HDCP, guess I'm just lucky, I constantly hear about it being problematic.
similar to netflixparty.com except: - it also supports prime/youtube/vimeo - it has an audio/video chat instead of a simple text chat - it doesn't require a chrome extension - it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) does it mean you can literally support other platforms without any integration?
>it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) What is even the point then? It's litearlly the only feature I expect from such service.
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> how would it be different from me renting a movie at home and having friends over? It would be different because Netflix has a contract to pay money for that licensed content, and sooner or later, that contract will need to be renewed. At that point, a Hollywood exec and a Netflix exec will sit across a boardroom table, and the Hollywood exec will say, "Your offer sounds OK, but we need to stop this watch party thi…
Or maybe Netflix could say "no this is a service we are providing to our users" and then the big "Hollywood exec" would be like "ok maybe we will not sit on the million dollars we get from our agreement" and that would be it.
Ideally you have both, but if forced to choose, you choose whatever makes sense for your business.
I personally don’t like people talking when watching a movie or a TV show. It’s fine if they exclaim or laugh or gasp depending on the situation (and not being too loud), but anything that’s some kind of speech or commentary makes me lose bits of what I’m watching and want to focus on. With streaming video, I can pause, rewind and then continue. But in this case, that would no longer be in sync with where the others…