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How does it work with ads? For example, if I get a 30s ad and the other person gets a 60s ad, does it still sync up? I watch shows like this (on hulu, hbo go,

by rgarcia 14y ago

How does it work with ads? For example, if I get a 30s ad and the other person gets a 60s ad, does it still sync up? I watch shows like this (on hulu, hbo go, netflix) w/ my SO fairly often and one thing I found with hulu is that oftentimes our videos get out of sync due to minor glitches here and there, e.g. we'll sync up after the end of a commercial break, but by the next commercial break we're out of sync by 5+ seconds. Just something to keep in mind...

gkoberger 14y ago
That was the hard part :) I keep track of where everyone is in commercials. If you finish early, the video is paused and it says you're waiting for the other person to finish. As for glitches: I experimented with a good way to fix this, but settled with just resyncing at every action (pause/play/commercial/etc). It would be annoying to have it keep syncing constantly, and a few seconds due to dropped frames isn't a huge deal.