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Does anybody know of a way to use their IPTV service to watch together with friends besides screen sharing? I wanted to watch some sports with friends and I hate that when I use discord, there’s lots of frame drops and quality issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

One thing I found that helps for sharing an IPTV stream on Discord is to use OBS as an intermediary.

Instead of sharing the IPTV window directly into Discord, I capture the IPTV window in OBS to send the output of that as a virtual webcam stream, which I then share to Discord.

That seems to help with the framerate.

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 2 points 1 year ago

Extra points if you pay for Nitro to bump up the stream quality.

[–] GarbanzoBean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MoshBit@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

It takes maaaybe another 5-10 mins to set up, its very easy.

[–] Qantumentangled@lemmy.farley.pro 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jellyfin has Watch Groups that my (tech-challenged) family uses regularly without my help.

I just added IPTV to my setup, so I haven't tested if they work together. I can't see why they wouldn't. Worse case, have then tune into the same channel as you, it should sync up almost perfectly on its own.

[–] GarbanzoBean@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Qantumentangled@lemmy.farley.pro 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, you'll need to spin up a Jellyfin server. It's really easy in docker though, and it shouldn't need a machine too powerful. I've heard of people running it on an rPi4 or old laptops.

[–] zoomshoes@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I run mine on a midrange Intel NUC, and it's worked awesome so far.