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.

  • TCB13@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What about you all torrent the same file, hit play at the same time and use some audio / video chat for the rest? Discord, MS Teams (lol), Zoom, Skype, FaceTime, whatever is available…

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      1 year ago

      I mean if you use that software, you can just share your screen.

      Notably, the free versions of Zoom and Teams only allow 40 minutes if you have more than 2 people in the call.

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        1 year ago

        We have tried this before and usually the video and audio quality go to shit. Source is 1080p streamed video looks like 144p. Tried Zoom, Jitsi, Teams, Telegram, FaceTime. All with very similar results. So far the best solution has been sharing a copy of the file and playing on the count of three.

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      1 year ago

      This is what we do. We have tried using a shared player with limited success because we all have different setups (PC connected to TV, Plex Streaming, Apple TV Stream, etc). But I am always looking for a more elegant answer. Hopefully someone here might have some new tech.