How to stream more than one video?

hi,

i successfully streamed a video, following this description...

http://land-answers.wiki.zoho.com/Streaming-Video-in-Second-Life.html

as mentioned in the description, i enter the media URL in the land info tab. but how can i stream a second (third, fourth...) video within the same region? there is no possibility to enter a second URL here. or are there special players is SL, that can manage that?

thx for answers!

What are you building?

it's a project for vienna university of technology. we want to demonstrate some things we did in the field of eTourism. every person working in the project is shown in a short video clip, saying what he was doing, his ideas, and so on. that's why i need to stream more than just one video.

There's no way to stream more than one video into a single parcel. If you want multiple streams, you'll need to subdivide the land. Then, to see your stream of choice, your avatar will need to be physically standing in the desired parcel. If two people standing in the same parcel want to see two different streams at the same time, it won't work.

That said, there are some ways to fake it. If you have a decent video editing program, you could create a split-screen effect, with multiple videos on a single canvas. For example, the left half of the frame could show one video, while the right half shows another. Then, on two in-world movie screens, simply set one to show the left half of your media texture, and the other to show the right half. (Set horizontal repeat to 0.5 on both; set horizontal offset to 0.25 on one, and to -0.25 on the other.).

Needless to say, this option is far from practical on an everyday basis. It takes a lot of prep work, it can lead to gigantic video files, and perhaps most importantly, it still won't be person-specific. Every person in a given parcel will see the same apparent set of videos at the same time. There's no good way to have different people see different videos simultaneously.

If you really, really, really wanted to, I suppose you could give each person a HUD, with a different portion of the media texture displayed on each one. That's the only way I can think of to create the illusion of each person seeing his or her own individual video. But depending on how many people you've got, that could get really messy really fast.

Most likely, you're going to need to rethink your idea. SL's just not set up for what you're trying to do.

ok, thx for the reply. i think, it wasnt' a goot idea anyway perhaps i will insert some external links to the videos, would be much easier...

I don't know if this will help you, but there is a product available in-world: a television that can play streaming videos from YouTube (or other sites), configurable by notecard. I have one at my cafe and although it is a little complicated to use it does work very nicely to provide a selection of videos that the user can choose from.

IM me in-world and I will send you a LM or the creator's name.

You may also be able to use Bucky Barkley's VidMon product, which makes it possible for each person who clicks on the monitor screen to see a different video. Bucky closed his in-world shop, but you can still see the documentation for VidMon at http://buckybarkley.wordpress.com/vidmon-3x-documentation/][url=http://buckybarkley.wordpress.com/vidmon-3x-documentation/]http://buckybarkley.wordpress.com/vidmon-3x-documentation/[/url] and you could send him an IM to inquire about availability.

Just to add to my friend Rolig's comment..

VidMon is my product (now Open Source, under a Creative Commons license) which allows for per-person video. Same screen, different people, same or different video, same time..

I am having a party at the store tomorrow to celebrate the Open Sourcing of my products, and I will have a couple of surprise announcements. Buckaroo, 3/28 @ 2pm SLT:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eduisland%204/39/173/25

I developed VidMon so that I could have patrons of a museum view different videos at the same time - I wasn't keen on chopping that parcel up into 20 pieces. Enjoy, and check out the store anytime.

Bucky

This seems to be a fairly common misconception. Integration of parcel media is implemented in the SL client, and different clients can see different things. It's just that there is no UI control for doing this in the client, so it requires LSL scripting.