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Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I never used that feature. Sometimes less is more. Anyone actively using it in plex or Jelly?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably around 40% of my watching is via syncplay on Jellyfin, as I like watching with buddies.

Sans jellyfin you have to find a way for both of you to access the same file/stream and manually sync across snack/bathroom breaks or use the external and separate syncplay app.

I do like the external syncplay app but if I'm going to have to get the file to them anyways, why not just stream it synced? In my mind this is a really convenient feature.

It is not perfect, in my experience;

  • on rare occasions, it gets 'stuck' and won't sync correctly, so one will play but noth the other, pausing one unpauses the other, etc. Usually rebooting helps, but if not, I just manually sync
  • there was 1 occassion which made no sense. I played a movie with a friend, we were watching together, but they were ahead of me by a whole ~15 minutes by the end of the film. Neither of us felt it was fast/slow or skipping anything.
  • I haven't had luck using syncplay on my TV. The feature exists but it doesn't actually work.

But these are rare, minor gripes IMO. I'm glad Jellyfin has this feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for sharing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I never used it, but it was a popular third party add-on before the feature was integrated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I don’t even used the SharePlay on Apple. Question for people using it: How do you start that? First do you start over phone/whatsapp/messengers? Or do you see people online in plex and propose to watch? For me either people are in different timezone so not practical or will be home and we watch it irl sync on the same tv.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I text my buddy, and say "hey do you wanna watch xyz, when you're done with work?". We hop on discord to chat and watch it. An hour or two timezone is not an issue, and for someone 'local' I'm probably not driving half an hour to their house after work. I do prefer watching together in-person, but thats not always as convenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for sharing