How a room works
Everyone in a room plays their own copy of the episode, on their own computer. Play, pause and seek stay in step for all of you. A room takes up to 10 people.
Start a room
- Play the episode you want to watch.
- Press Watch together in the player, or Ctrl+J.
- Press Start a room. The first time, type the name the others will see and press Start the room.
- Press Copy link and send the link to your friends, or read them the six-character Room code.
Join a room
- Open the link a friend sent. The room page in your browser offers Open in Anibeam.
- Or press Join room in the sidebar, or Ctrl+J, type the code and press Join. Lower case and a pasted link work too.
- Or type the code on rooms.anibeam.app, which opens the room's page.
When the room's episode is in your library, Open the episode plays it in step with the others.
You don't have the episode
Your row in the room says Doesn't have it. Press Get media: Anibeam asks the host's app for the torrent the episode came from, or the release's name, and downloads it into your library. The room shows your progress and the time left.
This needs downloads set up on your side. See Downloads.
You're slightly out of step
Under Your offset, Half a second earlier and Half a second later shift your copy. When your release and the host's differ, the room can suggest an offset from the openings, as in The openings suggest 1.5 s. Press Use it to take it.
Leave and settings
- Leave the room in the room panel leaves it.
- Your name in rooms is under SettingsPlayback.
- Room server in the same place is where rooms are made. Change it only for a server you run yourself.