Not sure if this feature has been suggested but...
It would be nice if I could stop and start video streams on a parcel for myself only without doing it for the whole parcel (similar to audio streams).
Thanks!
--Jack Lambert
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Jack Lambert
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03-04-2005 01:10
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McWheelie Baldwin
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03-04-2005 01:17
This would be nice to have as an option in the preferences.
[X] Enable streaming video. For those users that have it disabled, they would see the texture that is mapped to the streams, instead of the stream itself. This would definately help those on slower PC, or with less than optimal connections. McW _____________________
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CrystalShard Foo
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03-04-2005 01:46
I've also noticed that the video stream audio keeps on playing even when you turn off Parcel streaming music, or mute SL's audio entirely trough the options. Seems like this is happening because Quicktime is the one in charge of doing the audio on this part.
Might be a good idea to include an option for setting the video volume/muting the movie when one is playing? |
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Moopf Murray
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03-04-2005 02:20
Surely not having an option to turn off video is an oversight? I mean, who wants their bandwidth hogged by what will be mostly god awful videos. Not me, that's for sure. I want to be able to only enable it when I actually want to see a particular video.
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Champie Jack
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03-04-2005 02:44
video only starts on a touch event anyway..
you dont need to turn it off..it's off unless you touch the play button  _____________________
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Moopf Murray
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03-04-2005 02:53
video only starts on a touch event anyway.. you dont need to turn it off..it's off unless you touch the play button Aha OK, I haven't been able to get into the preview yet unfortunately but it appeared from the other posts on this thread that this wasn't the case. If it's only done on a touch event that's great. |
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Jack Lambert
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03-04-2005 05:40
video only starts on a touch event anyway.. you dont need to turn it off..it's off unless you touch the play button Not true... Try getting 8 avatars in one space. One can start the stream and the other 7 potentially have to suffer , it replaces a texture with a stream. As I was saying, I'd like to be able to turn off the stream (locally) without affecting the video for others.--Jack Lambert |
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Pete Fats
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03-04-2005 05:44
video only starts on a touch event anyway.. ...in the Linden example. You could just as easily start it with a sensor, listen, et al. I agree there should be some way to disable/stop/restart any video stream from the client. _____________________
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Moopf Murray
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03-04-2005 05:46
Not true... Try getting 8 avatars in one space. One can start the stream and the other 7 potentially have to suffer , it replaces a texture with a stream. As I was saying, I'd like to be able to turn off the stream (locally) without affecting the video for others.--Jack Lambert Ah I haven't been around at the same time as others watching a video (I have been into the preview since posting my last message though and watched a couple of videos) so I didn't realise this. This sounds like an omission or a bug again. |
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Newfie Pendragon
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03-04-2005 06:48
...in the Linden example. You could just as easily start it with a sensor, listen, et al. I agree there should be some way to disable/stop/restart any video stream from the client. Agree wholeheartedly on this. I already fly about with streaming audio turned off, having to put up with streaming video will make it an order of magnitude worse. _____________________
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Oz Spade
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03-04-2005 08:48
Yes, I support this feature...
- Enabling video streaming from preferences. - Sound control for video. Also the following functions, which will probably come later... - llSetParcelMediaURL - llSetParcelMediaTexture(key texture) - resets the texture used for streaming video. _____________________
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Jack Lambert
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03-04-2005 08:53
Also the following functions, which will probably come later... - llSetParcelMediaURL - llSetParcelMediaTexture(key texture) - resets the texture used for streaming video. The Lindens aknowledged that this feature will be coming... See here. --Jack Lambert |