so is it possible to watch pirated shows and movies together over the internet? me and my friends cant meet up because we're hours away from eachother.
Plex has that option.
Not sure if jellyfin has it
Since Jellyfin v10.6.0, it's had a feature called SyncPlay allowing multiple users to watch the same thing at the same time (coordinates pauses, fast forwarding/rewinding, and all that between clients). I've used it and it worked like a charm, although I did find that not all clients support it.
We'll get it added to Roku one day 🤞
Can confirm group-watching with Plex. I did this quite a few times with some friends during the darkest initial pandemic times and it's a great way to connect with distant friends. I also recommend, as someone mentioned, a simultaneous discord chat. We exclusively watched horrible movies and MST3K'd the shit out of them.
I use SyncPlay since it works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Can't do .mkv unfortunately which is what almost everyone uses on the high seas but if it's .mp4 or YT you're golden.
Another one I haven't seen mentioned
Of your into self hosting.
Basically, it's an always streaming virtual web browser.
If you really want to jump through hoops, do it in VRchat. Their biggest worlds are movie worlds. I've spent a 1000 hours in that game just watching movies for free with friends.
i was contemplating doing it in gmod.
U can use syncplay without jellyfin, there is a couple watch party rooms aswell in the internet but sadly most limit the free option to 720p
You can use https://watchparty.me as long as your upstream bandwidth is fast enough for amount of friends * bitrate, or you can selfhost it or get a premium account so their servers stream your file (so you only have to have bandwidth for a single stream yourself).
Use discord or something and screen share the movie in a call?
This technically breaks ToS so you could land yourself in trouble. That being said, lots of people do it all the time, so it can't be that risky.
Who would report you if Its just you and your friend?
When I had the quest 2 we did it with an app, don't remember if it was Big screen or what but the experience was great.
BETTER. YET.
Stream on discord, if you don't like that use jitsi, or any end to end video streaming platform like signal
