Best way to do a "watch party" with a very long video that isn't online?
August 2, 2020 11:25 AM Subscribe
I want to have a watch party with friends with a quite long video (4:36 or so.) I have this video on my computer, as I torrented it. I don't think it's available commercially, but I'm not absolutely sure. What's the best way to watch it more or less simultaneously with friends so we can chat about it if we feel like it? Will youtube let me upload it--just from the standpoint of "will it load?"? I'm guessing it would eventually get removed. Vimeo? Should I give up and just try and dropbox it to everyone or something? D) Other? Thanks.
Upload to google drive , make the file shareable but not public, drop the link in a watch2gether room, and have everyone install w2gsync in their browser. And be sure to delete from Google drive once watched.
posted by enfa at 11:49 AM on August 2, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by enfa at 11:49 AM on August 2, 2020 [1 favorite]
I do this in Discord. I video chat with friends where I share my screen to them. There's no latency issues.
As an alternative, you can stream from Twitch and others can come in. But either (a) you're going to be 10-20 seconds ahead, or (b) you're going to have to watch the twitch stream on a separate device from where you're streaming so that you're watching at the same time as everyone else. Because of how populated Twitch is, you're not at all likely to have strangers come in or for Twitch to ever notice and take action against your stream.
posted by TheLinenLenin at 1:19 PM on August 2, 2020 [1 favorite]
As an alternative, you can stream from Twitch and others can come in. But either (a) you're going to be 10-20 seconds ahead, or (b) you're going to have to watch the twitch stream on a separate device from where you're streaming so that you're watching at the same time as everyone else. Because of how populated Twitch is, you're not at all likely to have strangers come in or for Twitch to ever notice and take action against your stream.
posted by TheLinenLenin at 1:19 PM on August 2, 2020 [1 favorite]
Do you have a Plex server running? (It’s not hard to start it up with sharing as long as you can open the right ports.)
posted by supercres at 1:28 PM on August 2, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by supercres at 1:28 PM on August 2, 2020 [1 favorite]
This seems like exactly the sort of thing Kast is designed for.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 2:48 PM on August 2, 2020
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 2:48 PM on August 2, 2020
I second the Zoom thing. If you have two devices, have one "person" be the computer playing the video and you can be on another device chatting away. Zoom was way better at this than Webex, Hangouts, or Chrome browser screensharing.
posted by wnissen at 9:30 PM on August 2, 2020
posted by wnissen at 9:30 PM on August 2, 2020
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posted by mskyle at 11:34 AM on August 2, 2020 [2 favorites]