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.

  • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Mikel@lemmy.farley.pro
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    1 year ago

    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.