Streaming Video?
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Cunundrum Alcott
A Sardonic Pessimist
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02-20-2008 14:22
I rent a shoutcast stream but I was curious is there a plugin for winamp and streams to rent to stream video?
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Chosen Few
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02-20-2008 16:43
SL uses Quicktime for video. Anything playable by Quicktime can be viewed in SL. Winamp itself is not an option, but if you have a video that happens to be in a format usable by both Winamp and Quicktime, that will work. Anything Winamp-only won't do. It must be QT playable.
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Cunundrum Alcott
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02-21-2008 11:27
My question is how can I stream that into SL? I'm aware how to stream MP3's using WinAmp/Shoutcast and a rented stream but how would I stream video?
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Chosen Few
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02-21-2008 13:12
Unless you're dealing with live video, all you need to do is put the file somewhere on the Web. There's no need to continue doing anything active.
Once the movie file is on a Web server, to view it just set your land's media URL setting to wherever the file resides, pick whatever texture you want the movie to replace, and apply that texture to a prim. You'll find all the settings for that in the About Land window.
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Lee Ponzu
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02-21-2008 13:41
...and if two or more avatars are on the plot at the same time, do they see the same video, in sync? Or do they each get a separate copy of the stream....
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Cunundrum Alcott
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02-21-2008 14:26
From: Chosen Few Unless you're dealing with live video, all you need to do is put the file somewhere on the Web. There's no need to continue doing anything active.
Once the movie file is on a Web server, to view it just set your land's media URL setting to wherever the file resides, pick whatever texture you want the movie to replace, and apply that texture to a prim. You'll find all the settings for that in the About Land window. Most videos are like 500 mb at least. Uploading this to a website would be cumbersome and I imagine would eat up your bandwidth quickly. What I was hoping was a plugin that allowed you to stream directly from your hard drive like Shoutcast does. |
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Void Singer
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02-21-2008 14:49
presuming QT has any live stream formats, yes all users could see the same thing at roughly the same time. (and I would assume there's some, for cam streams)
I don't know of any video streaming plugins for winamp (or anything else really) but the same effect can be acheived by running a server on your local computer and using some form of free/dynamic dns to give it a friendly name is possible. just be aware this is against TOS for many larger isp's, and even if it isn't they may still have common incomming ports blocked (which can be gotten around).
considering you have money to afford a webserver, I'd just upload the videos you want to a web host, and then host the movies from there (no special server required).
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Cunundrum Alcott
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02-21-2008 14:52
From: Void Singer presuming QT has any live stream formats, yes all users could see the same thing at roughly the same time. (and I would assume there's some, for cam streams)
I don't know of any video streaming plugins for winamp (or anything else really) but the same effect can be acheived by running a server on your local computer and using some form of free/dynamic dns to give it a friendly name is possible. just be aware this is against TOS for many larger isp's, and even if it isn't they may still have common incomming ports blocked (which can be gotten around).
considering you have money to afford a webserver, I'd just upload the videos you want to a web host, and then host the movies from there (no special server required). I like the webserver hosting idea, I've done that before (forget the software) but it worked real well. |
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Farallon Greyskin
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02-21-2008 21:08
Ok, using your web provitder to host a QT compatible file: Each user sees the video from start to finish based on when they clicked the play button, so no everyone is not in synch unless you tell everyone to press play "Now" in world  I don't have an answer for you about live streamers, BUT even so, EVERY user would be sucking that stream out of your machine and over your internet connection and that would be MASSIVE bandwidth. The kind that well none has at home which is why this is almost unheard of. It's very hard to stream MP3s to very many people even over broadband, but video is 10x worse.  Even streaming the video once to a rebroadcaster might be iffy and then expect that rebroadcasting service to probably be a lot more expensive than the mp3 services. The best luck I've had is just putting a video up on my web site for people to watch at their leasure. And it's not THAT bad. Even with crappy mpeg compression you can get 90 minute watchable movies in < 200 meg and if you do a good QT compression of it probably down to 50 meg. and be still nice to watch in the sim home movie style. |
