Here is an explanation in details for beginners how to watch Youtube videos together with a far living friends so, what you see at the moment is what they see at the same moment. We will use MyCircle TV for this purpose.
STEP 1 – Open MyCircle TV home page. That’s what the page looks like:
STEP 2 – Use the search box to create or to join the room.
- Place the pointer of the mouse in the search box. A help window explaining what you can do with search field appears;
- You can paste here the address of any video page on 5 video sources: YouTube, Dallymotion, Vimeo, Soundcloud or Twitch TV;
- Or also use this field to join a room by its code xxx-yyyy-zzz;
- Or use this field to search by keywords on YouTube or others. Just write here what you are looking for. For example, write in the search field “dooset daram arash”:
STEP 3 – Press “Enter” key to see the search results. This action opens a new page with the results found (video files of the song “DOOSET DARAM” by ARASH feat. Helena):
STEP 4 – Create your virtual room.
- Place the mouse pointer over the desired video.
- Click once. This single mouse click instantly creates a room where your video runs, where you can invite people to watch video together and where you can have text or voice chat with them.
STEP 5 – Invite a friend to join your virtual room.
- Click on button “Invite +” to invite a friend to join your virtual room. This red button is at the top part of your screen. A popup window with an access code and a temporary link to your virtual room is displayed.
STEP 6 – Copy the access link – temporary link that gives access to your room.
- Place the mouse pointer over the address field of this popup window.
- Click once to mark in blue the whole link: https://www.mycircle.tv/2665-5203-450
- Press both “Ctrl” key and “C” key simultaneously to copy the link (path to your virtual room) in the computer clipboard.
STEP 7 – Send the message containing the access link to your friend.
- Open a messenger like Skype, Viber, your email, etc.;
- Create a new message or new email;
- Paste the access link in your message. In this example your message will contain the following text: https://www.mycircle.tv/2665-5203-450
- Send this message to your friend.
STEP 8 – Your friends has to do similar things to copy and to paste the received link in the command row of some internet browser.
Tell your friend to do the following things in this step:
- To copy the link https://www.mycircle.tv/2665-5203-450 from your message;
- To paste it in the command line of the browser. Popular internet browsers are Opera, Mozilla, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari… The white field in the browser’s upper part is called a command line. In the browser’s command line type the internet address of the desired web site page. In our example this address is https://www.mycircle.tv/2665-5203-450
- To press “Enter” to join your room.
When your friends join the room what they see from the video at the moment is what you see from this video at the same moment.
STEP 9 – Send an access code to some friends.
If it’s more comfortable for you, do not use access links, but just send an access code to your friends. In one group message, for example.
In this step 9, you have to do the following:
- Write the access code in a message. In this example you have 2 possibilities – to write the access code 108-9626-088 in a text message or to copy-paste it into the message. It is up to you. The access code field is named “Share anywhere”;
- send this message to a friend;
- The friend can join your room from the home page of MyCircle TV if he types the code 108-9626-088 in the search field.
STEP 10 – Use the other features of the room. If you look at the right of the screen, you will see that the room offers more opportunities. There are 6 tabs.
- “Text chat” tab – you can send text messages here;
- “Room attendee info” tab – here is an info if their audio is on or off and you can control their audio for voice chat here;
- “My Videos” – this tab is made to access your own videos on different clouds. You can then share them here while keeping control;
- “History” tab – here is a list of the videos played in this room;
- “Play lists” tab – at any time you can add a video to the playlist (except when the owner of the room as locked it. You can choose here a random play. When you choose an ‘automatic’ mode, the player switches to the next video;
- “Search” tab – to search any video to watch or to add to the playlist. The current video will not stop.
I hope that with this example you can teach yourself basically how to watch online together a video with a far living friends. Enjoy!
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