Experimental remote socializing
Mar. 28th, 2020 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrLast night Fay and I managed to have our TV night *and* remain in our apartments.
We used Teamviewr in meeting mode. It worked but was a bit of a pain because of CPU usage. I had to shut down most of my windows so that I wasn't locked out of them by the heavy CPU load.
Worked well enough on Fay's end, even after I lowered the video quality to try to reduce the load.
I did find some info that suggests I may be able to stream the videos we are watching using VLC, but the instructions on how to do it are a bit sparse. and the ones on how to **receive* the stream are even worse.
I'll have to do some experimenting.
But either way, we can go back to our old twice a week schedule, and watch more hours too. That should help us catch up (currently watching stuff from late January).
Still gotta figure out how to get files I recorded for Fay but I'm not interested in myself to her.
We used Teamviewr in meeting mode. It worked but was a bit of a pain because of CPU usage. I had to shut down most of my windows so that I wasn't locked out of them by the heavy CPU load.
Worked well enough on Fay's end, even after I lowered the video quality to try to reduce the load.
I did find some info that suggests I may be able to stream the videos we are watching using VLC, but the instructions on how to do it are a bit sparse. and the ones on how to **receive* the stream are even worse.
I'll have to do some experimenting.
But either way, we can go back to our old twice a week schedule, and watch more hours too. That should help us catch up (currently watching stuff from late January).
Still gotta figure out how to get files I recorded for Fay but I'm not interested in myself to her.
