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.
Plex can do it, but I assume you need a Plex Pass. I haven’t used the feature myself.
There actually is! It is still on my list to actually try it out, but it claims to do exactly what you want: https://fileparty.co
Tell me about your experience, once you have used it :)
Unfortunately it is not FOSS, but I believe peer-to-peer (hard to know for sure without the source)
There’s https://opentogethertube.com/ but it only works with mp4s not mkvs so you’d need to reencode most files you can acquire from the high seas …
In the past I used Cytu.be but you’d need to upload video (e.g. to twitch)
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.
