Synchronized watching a video from a URL?

[mlepage]

Hi, I'm interested in using VLC for a few people to remotely watch a video from a URL (e.g. YouTube or whatever) in synchronization. Ideally they would have some way of collaboratively pausing/playing the video. The purpose of this is so we can watch a video together but pause it now and then for discussion.

Although I've never tried it, I am aware that VLC can stream a multicast that is synchronized.

http://www.hackedexistence.com/project-vlc.html

However, what's not clear to me is whether that uses UDP to send *just* the synchronization info, or whether it also sends all the video data? It would be preferable for my desired purpose if only the synchronization info was sent between VLC instances, and they all just got the actual video data from the URL (e.g. YouTube). Is that the case? Is there a way to do that?

And if I were to use that technique, would there be a way to collaboratively pause/play?

Are there any other ways to use VLC to accomplish what I want to accomplish?

Thanks a bunch, looking forward to using VLC to serve this purpose.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Yeah, the netsync plugin can do that, but it's not trivial to configure.

[mlepage]

Great I'll check it out.

Any other options, post here!

[mlepage]

Netsync does not seem to work.

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