You can do this with Jellyfin through the SyncPlay feature. Works with multiple devices including desktop and mobile. You’d need to set up a Jellyfin server and have each person that wants to view either log-in on their web browser, or download an app.

For voice chat you’d just need to pop open Mumble or something similar. I encourage you to ruffle a bag of popcorn with a live mic and loudly slurp a nice cold beverage through a straw for the ultimate movie theater experience.

lol you sound like someone who’s done this before :)

Jitsi Meet?

Is it possible to stream a video with Jitsi Meet? I don’t mean streaming a video conference, I mean a video file such as a movie.

In this case it seems very strange question.... Every program with screen sharing + conference capabilities should work?

I was thinking like, everybody had a copy of the video, and maybe there was a way to watch it in sync such that if one person pauses, everybody pauses etc. but the video file is already locally available. I’ll try screen sharing if I cannot do that, but my upload speed is not great.

I have not tried it before, but this looks like exactly what you’re describing for local copies. https://syncplay.pl/

oh this is great! Thank you so much for the link! I’m going to try this out.