Best practice for Network Objects controlled by all players

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What’s the best practice for networked objects, which should be controllable by all players?
I have a VideoPlayer in my unity app, which is synced for all clients via UNET. All clients should have control over play/pause/seek/loadvideo etc.

It’s currently a host object, so clients don’t have authority. Is it a good idea to implement a command call on player objects to request authority with “NetworkIdentity.AssignClientAuthority()” or is there an easier way?

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I would have every client spawn a player object that is nothing but a NetworkIdentity and a script with some [Commands] in it. When the player script on the server receives a command from one of the clients it can then call a method on your server owned VideoPlayer that sends a [ClientRPC] back out to all the clients to play/pause/etc

I don’t think you should ever need to AssignClientAuthority

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