Stream any torrent in sync with your friends

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 111 points – 10 months ago

GitHub - pojntfx/multiplex: Watch torrents with your friends.

Multiplex, an app to watch torrents together. It provides an experience similar to Apple's SharePlay and Amazon's Prime Video Watch Party, except for any torrent instead of a specific streaming service. Thanks to WebRTC, it doesn't require a server to sync playback, and can use a gateway if a viewer can't use BitTorrent. It's written in Go for GNOME; check it out on GitHub https://github.com/pojntfx/multiplex

made by @pojntfx@mastodon.social

Is this the same as Plex's 'watch together' feature?

Could anyone tell me about how torrent streaming works? Is it just the file being downloaded to a server and streamed to a bunch of viewers, or something else?

I use WebTorrent / WebTorrent-CLI and it basically streams/partially downloads the torrent and plays in your player of choice.

Not sure about this other option here.

I hope this gets ported to Windows. I use Linux, but many of my friends don't and won't.

WSL?

Same

Hmm, I wonder if this could be aadapted to a Stremio plugin.

Don't we already have Peario?

I didn't know that we did, but yes, apparently! lol :O

That is awesome.

I have not been able to check it out myself, so if you do please share the experience :D

I was just about to ask this.

Check this

What protocol does hTorrent use to communicare with BitTorrent peers? Webtorrent uses WebRtc which is incompatible with most torrent clients today

This seems like a cool project, I'll have to try it out!

Is it in the aur