Hey Hacker News!

Recently I wanted to watch a movie with a friend online. I had the movie locally on my computer and could not find an easy way to watch that movie together. So I built it myself :-).

This is still a prototype! It is functional - but you should be using Chrome and your desktop computer . But if people find this project useful, I'd be glad to support other platforms as well!

Technology: I am using a simple nodejs server in the backend and react in the frontend. The server is used shortly to create a WebRTC connection. From then on all communication is done using WebRTC only. Thankfully you can easily share the content of a HTML video component using captureStream/mozCaptureStream :-).

I would love to hear your feedback!

Hi man, interesting stuff. Would love to have a chat history:)

Hey! Thank you for the feedback. I put it on my todo list :-)

There's something called Scener (https://scener.com/about) that does something similar but it requires streaming service subscriptions. I love that this would work to share a DVD with friends, but there are probably legal problems around that, I'd think?

Hey! Thank you for your input :-). You might need to encode your videos to mp4 first - but then it should work!

Let me clarify how this technically works: Your browser creates a DIRECT connection to your friend's browser and streams DIRECTLY to your friend. I do not see any legal problems - but I am not a lawyer for sure!

Oh, that's very interesting. Thanks!

this is super cool!

1. need to lock room (privacy<3)

2. drag and drop files

3. donation button so you get some money to keep it alive after it goes viral

this def should be shared on reddit for the love

Thank you for your kind words - they might very well ensure that I keep working on the project!