Syncplay For Mac

Watching videos with your friends at the same time, but in different locations might prove to be a bit of a challenge since you need to be starting and pausing the playback concomitantly.

Syncplay is a Python application designed to automatically synchronize the videos over the internet, with the help of public servers. This way, whenever someone in your group is pausing, rewinding or fast forwarding the video, the changes will be reflected across all connected devices.

Installing Syncplay on your Mac is just a matter of drag and dropping the Syncplay application from the mounted DMG into your Applications folder, and run the Install for VLC script also included in the downloaded package if you want to use it with the VLC media player.

Once everything is in place, the Syncplay service, and the associated script have to be launched from the command line. However, the script comes with a user-friendly interface that helps you connect to a Syncplay server and monitor the room activity.

Via the Syncplay graphical user interface you get to connect to a room on one of the public servers and see all other users that have decided to join in (you can let the app generate an anonymous username, or set it up manually to allow others to recognize you).

Here you can see if everyone is ready to watch the video, and see who has paused the movie, or performed any other playback management tasks.

Note that the Syncplay is directly connected to the media player, and automatically syncs the commands to all devices, without any user interference. Syncplay works with the VLC and mpv media players.

Syncplay is an excellent and very easy to use software solution designed from the ground up to make it as simple as possible to watch movies with your friends even though you are not in the same location.