@ajmcgr Metastream allows users to synchronize media streams on the internet. An example could be a video on YouTube, a livestream on Twitch, or even music on SoundCloud.
It does this by sending playback information to everyone in a session. What it doesn't do is stream any audio or video data between users.
I'm still looking for ways to clear up this confusion so I'm open to any feedback in that regard. 😅
Hi, PH!
I've been building Metastream as a way to create a better experience for streaming media on the web. Many products exist to synchronize media from a specific service such as YouTube and Twitch. My goal is to provide one product that works with most websites.
In the past I've built popular game mods with the same concept, including Cinema and Media Player for Garry's Mod. Both suffer from constraints of only supporting specific websites. Learning from these past projects, Metastream supports many more websites such as YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll, and more.
For the product roadmap, I plan to add more traditional media player features such as playlists and a more audio-focused mode. These are still early days for Metastream so expect more developments soon!
Please let me know what you think. :)
@typicalmitul Oof, there are some networking issues I'm still trying to resolve. The primary way of connecting—sharing friend codes—depends on P2P which can be flaky on some networks.
I have a guide up on how to troubleshoot this issue: https://github.com/samuelmaddock...
One of the features of Metastream is the ability to host your own session and have friends join by connecting to your IP directly. This means you can use Metastream even if any backend services go down! If you're comfortable forwarding a port in your router, the guide linked above includes the port.
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you should associate with popcorn ( https://twitter.com/popcorn2934 ) , you could create a very nice thing together because I like their interface, and I like your functionality.
I will leave rabb.it for that.
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needs some improvements, i checked you out after rabb.it went bust. it was having major issues from adding to the list- to skipping, it seems like it would play on mine0- but when my friend would come into room- he would only hear audio- i tried to clean everything- redo room invite hime back- and it would not play. its really annoying there are all these youtube, vinmo, players out there- but what made rabbit extention great is that it could share a video playing in your chrome- it did not have to end with .mp4- or be a standard html5 video- it would even play videos from a local video file player app within chrome- and had no problems playing videos from sites like discovery id- which have ads- its just a mess, and i have no idea why rabb.it died- but if someone were to copy their ext- they would have a huge boost
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