Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
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Re: Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
#2Sort of self-hosted version of what https://rabb.it does. I have used Rabbit a couple times successfully for watching movies with Internet friends.
Re: Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
#3If anyone is looking for this, but for offline videos (where every person has a local copy of the video), that exists and is called "syncplay". Very convenient when you want to watch and comment on movies with distant friends in real time.
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#4My cousin and I used to do this manually all the time via IM when we were younger. We watched whole shows together that way. Also we used the IM for live commentary.
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omg, he did not just do that!
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pause, brb
back, where are you?
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okay, ready.
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omg, i can't believe that just happened. next ep?
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Re: Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
#5I’ve always wished Netflix had this built in. If it didn’t support syncing between the same account it would even voluntarily cut down on account sharing.
Re: Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
#6I’ve always wished Netflix had this built in. If it didn’t support syncing between the same account it would even voluntarily cut down on account sharing.
Netflix actually had a feature on the original Xbox that allowed you to create a group with your friends and watch videos together. Unfortunately, they removed this feature a while ago.
Re: Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
#7I set this up in the most hacky way 10 years ago with my girlfriend. We would watch dvds together and I wanted to synchronize them (especially important for comedies)
My setup? An app that would monitor DVD Player for events while listening to events over iChat using AppleScript.
If someone paused or played the DVD, the moitoring process would notice the event, make a JSON payload representing the action including the local timestamp, and use AppleScript to post an iChat message. Then, the process on the other side, would see the special iChat message (forwarded via AppleScript), and apply the action to the local DVD player process, taking into account the difference between the sent timestamp and the local timestamp.
It worked like a charm and made watching movies so much more fun. We always had iChat open anyway so it seemed like an easy win to piggy back on that, no server needed.
An inelegant hack, but it worked.
Re: Vynchronize – A fun realtime video sync platform for friends
#8Sort of self-hosted version of what https://rabb.it does. I have used Rabbit a couple times successfully for watching movies with Internet friends.
Rabbit allows VNC-ing into a VM instead of just synchronizing the events though - I'd be interested to see a good platform for multi-user VNC though!
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#9I’ve always wished Netflix had this built in. If it didn’t support syncing between the same account it would even voluntarily cut down on account sharing.
Netflix actually had a feature on the original Xbox that allowed you to create a group with your friends and watch videos together. Unfortunately, they removed this feature a while ago.
On the Xbox 360 you mean? I recall it there, not on the original Xbox.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Netflix actually had a feature on the original Xbox that allowed you to create a group with your friends and watch videos together. Unfortunately, they removed this feature a while ago.
On the Xbox 360 you mean? I recall it there, not on the original Xbox.
Yes it was on the 360. The original Xbox never got Netflix.