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Easy to use apps for having a watch party? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A good friend of mine just asked me if we can have a watch party in the upcoming days over the internet, so we can watch a movie together. They live in another country.

Now, streaming platform have the "Watch Party" option, but is not worth it to pay them an entire subscription just for one movie and one day, so I was wondering if there was an app that allowed me to have a watch party, streaming the movie from a local file.

I want it to be easy to use and have a mobile client/app, since this person is not very techy like me.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Owncast is an open source streaming platform. It's great for watch parties and it has its own built-in chat.

You can see a list of public streams in the Owncast Directory

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is usually a function that full blown media servers offer.

Jellyfin is the one that jumps to mind with this functionality, however I haven't really this functionality out as of yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin's watch-together-feature (can't remember the name) worked very well on my local network when we needed it (remember Covid? +__+), so I guess it could also be an option if you do it with Wireguard or something similar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Browser-based, but works on mobile just fine: https://www.watchparty.me

The amount of viewers you can stream to depends on your upload speed and video bitrate. There's a premium version that allows relaying video files via their servers.

It's also open source so you can host it yourself should you want to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is just what I needed! My group has been using Discord for the longest time but it very frequently turns into a 144p stream