Method and apparatus for coviewing video

A method for audio-video conferencing with a plurality of participants, comprising:

• receiving, at a control system server network, a first user identifier associated with a first streaming device and a second user identifier associated with a second streaming device;
• receiving, at a control system server network, a third identifier associated with a content streaming device;
• sending, from the control system server network, a first request comprising the first user identifier to the second streaming device identified by the second user identifier;
• sending, from the control system server network, a second request to the content streaming device associated with the third identifier;
• receiving, at the control system server network, a content audio stream and a content video stream associated with third identifier associated with from the content streaming device;
• sending, from the control system server network, the content audio stream to second streaming device identified by the second user identifier;
• receiving, at the control system server network, a second audio stream and a second video stream associated with the second user identifier from the second streaming device wherein the content audio stream has been dampened from the second audio stream;
• mixing the content audio stream and the second audio stream into a third audio stream to be played by first streaming device associated with the first user identifier;
• mixing the content video stream and the second video stream into a third video stream to be played by first streaming device associated with the first user identifier;
• and
• transmitting a media timestamp to the first streaming device to allow the first streaming device to skip a number of frames of the third video stream based on the media timestamp.