This post is about how to listen to music and watch videos together online with friends, using Skype for Windows and free NDI tools for Windows, installed on your computer.
Everyone knows the problems to communicate in real time with friends and family from far. The Internet messengers give us a possibility to speak, to write and to watch each other in real time, but not to listen to music or to watch movie together with excellent quality. There are two free, easy and well known to me ways to do this: using suitable Internet site or using suitable communication software installed on your computer.
To use suitable Internet site for sound and video sharing in real time is very simple (there is no need to install something special) and was explained in details in posts 1 to 4, quality is good enough, but not excellent.
If you use suitable software installed on your Windows PC the quality is excellent! To achieve this, first you need to download a software. Then you need to do initial installation and adjustments of this software and some other adjustments. After that you are able to send to your friends the desktop and system sounds of your Windows computer just with a few simple mouse clicks. If you are keen to know how to do all described above, you just continue to read here. I’m going to explain in details how to use Skype together with NDI tools for Window.
Using Skype and NDI tools for Windows enables you to achieve for free excellent quality in synchronized video and audio online sharing.
Here is a brief description of the whole process:
- Download and install NewTek NDI Tools for Windows PC;
- Be sure you have the last Skype for Windows version installed;
- Open Skype “Settings” menu and make only once some adjustments here;
- Resolve some software troubles if they appear;
- Start a new Skype session;
- Establish video connection with your Skype contact and enable screen and sound sharing;
- Tell your contact to mute the microphone – otherwise it makes a bad noise in your speakers;
- Mute your microphone too;
- Enjoy together great sound and video quality!
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