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Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by kristopolous »

I had a web app to do this a few years ago (2011?) For thematic music video content at http://80smtv.com/#80smtv (still up but a ghost town).

Here's the source (https://github.com/kristopolous/emptyv) ... most of it was written during the 3 or so weeks that it had lots of traffic, coming from all places, Poland.

I worked hard on the anarchistic anonymous vj feature as a social experiment. It was interesting but not traction building.

One day I'll build something that can sustain traffic. One day...

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by teirce »

gfodor wrote: post #27

Cool stuff -- at AltspaceVR we support the same concept with Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc, but as avatars within a virtual space (ideally in VR.) You can hang out while watching netflix with voice chat, body tracking, etc. This was a big challenge for us to get working well, so I can sympathize with the authors :) http://altvr.com Just install our browser plugin, go to a netflix vid, hit "watch in AltspaceVR", and y…

I feel like I'm the only one who is annoyed when people plug their products in someone else's post. I understand you're just trying to increase your userbase, but it just seems disrespectful.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by vsakos »

CardenB wrote: post #44
vsakos wrote: post #40

I recently made a similar desktop app to watch movies with my gf. It has only video sync and text based chat. Check the screenshot: http://i.pics.rs/64I0n Maybe I will open source it when it's done. Btw I used Qt and libVLC.

PLEASE open source this! I will use it and might even help you finish it.

To be honest, it's pretty bad, you can't imagine. Everything is in one single C++ file (+ the main.cpp), the chat is a webkit widget (it was the easiest and fastest solution), there is no error checking or anything so it can crash any time, etc etc...

Actually, this is my first C++ project, I don't even know C++ (only a bit C from high school).

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by DINKDINK »

liedra wrote: post #43
wcummings wrote: post #2

The far less polished solution I came up with for syncing viewing with my friends: https://github.com/wcummings/vlc-irc-rc

Ha, my long distance relationship survived with a good old fashioned "3, 2, 1, go!" :)

/think better delay pressing start by the latency amount ;]

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by bgnm2000 »

teirce wrote: post #54
gfodor wrote: post #27

Cool stuff -- at AltspaceVR we support the same concept with Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc, but as avatars within a virtual space (ideally in VR.) You can hang out while watching netflix with voice chat, body tracking, etc. This was a big challenge for us to get working well, so I can sympathize with the authors :) http://altvr.com Just install our browser plugin, go to a netflix vid, hit "watch in AltspaceVR", and y…

I feel like I'm the only one who is annoyed when people plug their products in someone else's post. I understand you're just trying to increase your userbase, but it just seems disrespectful.

I'll take the other approach here - I think its useful to see products in a competing space for everyone involved. The poster, and the readers alike only benefit from understanding the full landscape more clearly.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by TheMagicHorsey »

teirce wrote: post #54
gfodor wrote: post #27

Cool stuff -- at AltspaceVR we support the same concept with Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc, but as avatars within a virtual space (ideally in VR.) You can hang out while watching netflix with voice chat, body tracking, etc. This was a big challenge for us to get working well, so I can sympathize with the authors :) http://altvr.com Just install our browser plugin, go to a netflix vid, hit "watch in AltspaceVR", and y…

I feel like I'm the only one who is annoyed when people plug their products in someone else's post. I understand you're just trying to increase your userbase, but it just seems disrespectful.

Disagree. I like to hear about the other work in the same space. Otherwise, being not familiar with each space on HN, I may think something is unique just because I haven't heard about it before.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by ouring1986 »

cyanbane wrote: post #49
moistgorilla wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This and the top 100 game show thing are some of my best memories from using the xbox 360

Agreed Top 100 was a great live mass(ive?) multiplayer gameshow. I hope to see something similar to it again some day.

How was that played? I'm having trouble googling it.

Re: Show HN: Showgoers – Watch Netflix with friends remotely

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Post by alttab »

TheGRS wrote: post #14
chubasco wrote: post #12

The Netflix app on the Xbox 360 used to do this. And you and your friends could put on your headsets and watch the same thing on Netflix while chatting.

I was pretty disappointed when they ditched that feature, my friends and I used it pretty extensively as we were all attending different colleges, but still loved to play games and chat online. It was buggy for sure, especially when you added in disparities in lag (which was very common back then). IIRC Microsoft maintained this functionality however and not Netflix, which is probably why it was eventually discontinu…

It's also known as streaming the same content and talking over skype.
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