So Yahoo/Tumblr just released this app called Cabana. It does something I have wanted, and stupidly did not build myself. It lets you have that experience of watching YouTube together with friends even when you are not in the same room.
Yeah, there are a lot of services that do this. Watch2gether and Letsgaze I’ve use in the past, however I like watching stuff like anime and movies with friends. Thus I ended up settling on Syncplay, which plugs into VLC and provides synced playing through there at the caveat that all of the parties need to have the same file.
OK I’ve got it working, the solution was to not do the encoding. We are good to go for the Rangers game on Thursday if anyone is interested. Might test it out tonight with a random game…