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Show HN: Sharethatpopcorn.com, watch a movie together online

FabianCarbonara 6y ago
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!
- KrullLuckian 6y ago
  Hi man, interesting stuff. Would love to have a chat history:)
  - FabianCarbonara 6y ago
    Hey! Thank you for the feedback. I put it on my todo list :-)
braddx 6y ago
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
- FabianCarbonara 6y ago
  Thank you for your kind words - they might very well ensure that I keep working on the project!
lakkal 6y ago
There's something called Scener (https://scener.com/about 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?
- FabianCarbonara 6y ago
  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!
  - lakkal 6y ago
    Oh, that's very interesting. Thanks!

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!

KrullLuckian 6y ago
Hi man, interesting stuff. Would love to have a chat history:)
- FabianCarbonara 6y ago
  Hey! Thank you for the feedback. I put it on my todo list :-)

braddx 6y ago

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

FabianCarbonara 6y ago
Thank you for your kind words - they might very well ensure that I keep working on the project!

lakkal 6y ago

There's something called Scener (https://scener.com/about 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?

FabianCarbonara 6y ago
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!
- lakkal 6y ago
  Oh, that's very interesting. Thanks!