Building and installing Syncplayįor our server, we are going to install syncplay in /opt/syncplay and create a new system user to run it. This guide has been tested a Linux machine running Ubuntu 14.04LTS and a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Jessie. Plus some people would prefer to have their own server running anyways. Public servers are also rather rare and sometimes not reachable all the time. While setting up a server for your own is not that difficult, it’s quite laborious to do it every time you want to watch something. It works by either one of the users providing a server on their local machine for the clients to join, or everyone joining a public server. every time someone takes a break for a second. py accordingly.Syncplay is a tool that allows you to synchronize media players between multiple clients, which allows you to watch video files, that you and your friends have, together on different machines, without shouting 3. NSIS is assumed to be installed to ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\NSIS\makensis.exe’, so if it is not you will need to modify the. Note: If you want to build your own Windows installers you will need NSIS and py2exe to run buildpy2exe.py. If you are using the frozen executable package available from the Download page then you will not need to be able to run Python scripts. because you are running Syncplay from the latest source code) then you will need Python 3.4 and the same scripts as Linux (above) plus:
If you are not using the frozen executable package (e.g.
dmg file from by selecting “Get Syncplay for OS X”.Īdditional software required to run Python scripts on Windows
Ensure that you have an acceptable version of a supported media player installed (see ‘Compatible media players’, above).If you are currently running Syncplay then please close it before running the installer.To play certain online streams with mpv you will need youtube-dl.
with respect to the in-player chat facility. We recommend using mpv as that has the highest level of Syncplay compatibility, e.g. Available from: (official) or (maintained fork) You will need one of the supported media players: For more general information on using Syncplay see the guide to Using the Syncplay Client and Running a Syncplay Server.