Video Viewing

Hi,

I'm interested in all the aspects of creating a piece of land in Second Life that would host several large screens, each of which would feature a video capable of being played by a SL resident.
I realise this is somewhat of broad question, but would anything, beside the modelling and scripting, would be involved? Ideally which videos were to be displayed would be determined by RSS feed or, if necessary, any other format of XML feed. I've also any of the necessary encoded video formats needed.
Any help or thoughts, however broad, would be a great help.
This is really to quickly guage whether integration of our company's media portals would be possible with SL.

cheers,

dJ

Well first off you can only host 1 video per parcel. In theory you could devide up your land so you have one screen and parcel for each video or a script that will change on demand or automaticly cycle the urls. If you wanna cycle videos or simply have a live update from offworld you'll need to use XML-PRC since at this time I don't think SL supports RSS feeds as I haven't seen any script that handles them yet. As for video formats remember SL uses QuickTime for video so its basicly whatever QT supports (*.mov, *.3gp, *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.swf, etc.).

Thanks for the response, Ron.
The vast majority of the video would be 3gp in that case. I'd imagine we'd hire an SL builder for the actual design of the land / models needed but I've been unable to find any easy starting points for scripting for this kind of work - is there anything you could recommend, or is it a case of just diving in LSL from the ground up?

Best to work from the ground up and learn the basics first or put up a code bounty in the script discussion forums if you can't do it yourself.

Will do - thanks for the assistance, Ron.