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Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature (www.pcworld.com)

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[–] [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