CPC H04L 65/403 (2013.01) [G06F 9/452 (2018.02); H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 67/01 (2022.05); H04L 67/1095 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A computing device comprising:
a memory and a processor configured to cooperate with the memory to
determine, based upon at least one multimedia filter running at a first client computing device, a uniform resource locator (URL) associated with a media cloud service of a video being streamed to the first client computing device and played within a first local graphics surface at the first client computing device and playback control data associated with the video being streamed to the first client computing device; and
cause a second client computing device to independently stream the video from the media cloud source based upon the determined URL, and play the video at the second client computing device synchronously with playback of the video at the first client computing device based upon the playback control data within a second local graphics surface at the second client computing device emulating the first graphics surface, with the first client computing device being the controller for playback of the video at the second client computing device.
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