In desperate need of media help

I'm running out of ideas and time here and I really need help or ideas on how to make this work. I need to get my own movies to play in Second Life. I had thought youtube would work but it doesn't.

I was getting them to work perfectly via youtube and this..
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files

It gets the mp4 download link for youtube videos. But I'm not sure if that mp4 url download link is time sensitive or what because although the first day it works perfectly, the next day it doesn't work at all in Second Life.

Is there any other way I can get my own videos into sl with a url that will work continuously. I'm getting desperate here.

I would go snag a youtube TV and see what the links look like that they construct. The one I snagged was pretty popular and only cost a few hundred lindens. You should be able to figure out how to create the URL that way.

I did the same thing as you initially and I don't think it's the way to go.

Thanks I think I'll try that. I bought one youtube type tv but it was way way to complicated for what I needed.

There is some sort of time link, Torley discussed this, check out the blog he did about it:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/30/3-cool-tools-which-solve-common-second-life-problems/#more-2507

If you need to be able to do this long-term, Sarah, and you don't mind shelling out about US$6 per month, get webhosting with Dreamhost. They have massive bandwidth allowances, and you can enable Quicktime streaming from there.

There's a special offer on right now (you'll have to be bloody quick: only 30 places left) that gives unlimited server space and unlimited bandwidth. RUN!

http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html

Links to YouTube videos change periodically. So, in order to view them reliably, you have to go through an external redirection service that will re-create a new URL every time you view it. That is what the tool Torley recommends does: http://youtubemp4.com/

I'm sure that's what some of the inworld TV's do (there's a bunch on Xstreet). They don't seem too hard to set up, just put the YouTube URL in a notecard and pray.

Youtube links are probably temporary because they insist that you use their viewers to view their content, so that their advertisers get eyeballs. Cf. YouTube's TOS:

If these are your videos, Sarah, you might want to post them on another service that is more friendly to outside viewers, and supports Quicktime formats. I've heard that blip.tv works well, and it's free too.

Good luck!
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Format your movies to a QT format, then upload and stream from blip.tv.