I recently started using Watch Together and while I think it’s a great idea I’m finding it difficult to work well.
Basically a friend and I started doing a Sunday night one movie together where I am local to my Plex and she is in another state to me (we’re in the US).
When we start it, she seems to be consistently somewhere between 1 to 2 seconds behind me (closer to 2 secs.) all the way through. I don’t know how this can happen as we can easily start within a small fraction of second of each other manually so Plex should be able to do that.
Is it because I am on the LAN of the Plex server and therefore getting no delay?
I would have thought with virtually every device out there these days being synced within microseconds of each other through NTP that Plex could take advantage of that to at least get the starting in sync. If it did that then when someone paused, it could redo the sync so if it got out of sync it would give users a way to easily get it back in sync. – with the normal caveats that come with the complexities of programming (I have to say that being a programmer).
Are there some settings somewhere that I can tweak to fix this? I haven’t notice any settings for watch together so far.
If you are wondering why a couple of seconds matter it comes down to commenting, laughs and realizations throughout the movie as it becomes rather disconcerting, for example, when one of us laughs at something and the other has yet to see/hear what that was about, it can really dull the moment. We keep on the phone with each other while we are watching.
