WatchP2PStream

Watch streams together, browser to browser, without a media server.

Watch a tab, window or screen together with friends, browser to browser. No server, no account, no data collected. A host invites up to twelve viewers, and everyone sees and hears the same thing: YouTube, a film, a game or any video that plays in the host's browser. WHY WATCHP2PSTREAM • No server at all. The picture, the sound and the chat go directly between the browsers. Even the connection setup travels as codes through a messenger you already use. • No account and no subscription for viewers. Only the host needs access to the content; a viewer needs the extension and a code. • Everyone sees exactly the same picture. The host's picture and sound are sent, not a playback position, so nobody drifts out of step and regional versions of a title do not matter. • Works with any video the host can play that has no copy protection, and with a whole window or screen. • The host is in control: up to twelve viewers, one invitation per person, removing a viewer, a picture quality from Minimal to 4K, and a load monitor that says when the computer or connection cannot keep up. A viewer can share too, once the host allows it. • Private by design. Every connection is encrypted between two browsers. HOW IT WORKS 1. Click the toolbar icon. The WatchP2PStream page opens. 2. Host: choose "Host a session" and send the invitation code to a friend through any messenger. 3. Viewer: choose "Join a session", paste the code and send the reply code back. 4. Host: paste the reply code, choose "Share" and pick a tab, window or screen. Also included: a chat, a full-screen mode with a sliding sidebar, a volume control, settings for weak connections and an optional smoothing buffer for viewers on long routes. PRIVACY WatchP2PStream collects no data and sends nothing to the developer. To connect people on different networks, your browser asks a public STUN server (stun.l.google.com, run by Google) for its public IP address; that server sees IP addresses and nothing else. Invitation and reply codes contain network addresses, so send them only to the person you invite. LIMITS Services with copy protection (Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Max) show a black picture when shared. WatchP2PStream does not circumvent that. Open source (MIT): https://github.com/MathewRGB/WatchStream