Watch2Gether is a service for watching YouTube videos together, with support for Vimeo, Netflix, Amazon, Disney and others. Users create a room, share the link and watch in a synchronized player for video and audio. It includes an integrated chat room, playlists and webcam support; no user account is required.
Media Player Classic - BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. It is based on the original Media Player Classic project and Media Player Classic Home Cinema, with additional features and bug fixes. It plays various video and audio files and supports hardware decoding and deinterlacing.
StreamLink is a command-line utility that extracts video streams from various services and pipes them into a video player such as VLC or mpv. It uses a plugin system to support services including Twitch and YouTube, and a Python API is available for developers. The project was forked from Livestreamer, which is no longer maintained.
Mzelo is a web-based watch party platform for watching movies, YouTube videos, and anime together in synced rooms. It offers chat, voice, and video hangouts alongside tools such as a virtual browser, YouTube sync, screen sharing, local media playback, and a web player.
SMPlayer is a free, open-source media player for Windows and Linux that includes built-in codecs for playing audio and video formats without external codec packs. It serves as a graphical interface for MPlayer and mpv, and can play and download YouTube videos, find subtitles, generate thumbnails and resume playback. It is available in more than 30 languages.
Kosmi is a free watch party platform for movie nights, game nights, and virtual hangouts. It lets users watch Netflix, YouTube, or other video in sync and add games, music, and video chat without downloads or signup. Rooms are customizable, with shared browsing, screen sharing, link sharing, and file sharing built in.
MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for Linux and UNIX systems. The project has stable 2.5.2 and development 2.6-alpha3 releases. A forum post notes that MOC does not currently read the year from tags, though adding it is considered possible.
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Media Player Classic - BE is a free and open source audio and video player for Windows. It is based on the original Media Player Classic project and Media Player Classic Home Cinema, with additional features and bug fixes. It plays various video and audio files and supports hardware decoding and deinterlacing.
StreamLink is a command-line utility that extracts video streams from various services and pipes them into a video player such as VLC or mpv. It uses a plugin system to support services including Twitch and YouTube, and a Python API is available for developers. The project was forked from Livestreamer, which is no longer maintained.
Mzelo is a web-based watch party platform for watching movies, YouTube videos, and anime together in synced rooms. It offers chat, voice, and video hangouts alongside tools such as a virtual browser, YouTube sync, screen sharing, local media playback, and a web player.
SMPlayer is a free, open-source media player for Windows and Linux that includes built-in codecs for playing audio and video formats without external codec packs. It serves as a graphical interface for MPlayer and mpv, and can play and download YouTube videos, find subtitles, generate thumbnails and resume playback. It is available in more than 30 languages.
Kosmi is a free watch party platform for movie nights, game nights, and virtual hangouts. It lets users watch Netflix, YouTube, or other video in sync and add games, music, and video chat without downloads or signup. Rooms are customizable, with shared browsing, screen sharing, link sharing, and file sharing built in.
MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for Linux and UNIX systems. The project has stable 2.5.2 and development 2.6-alpha3 releases. A forum post notes that MOC does not currently read the year from tags, though adding it is considered possible.
