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JaneLame Reardon
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Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 11
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02-05-2007 04:23
I installed the Linux Client Alpha on my Debian Sarge machine, but it does not seem to support video. What sould I install to view streaming QuickTime in SL? Thanks in advance.
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Triss Gray
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Join date: 10 Oct 2006
Posts: 59
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02-06-2007 02:16
From: JaneLame Reardon I installed the Linux Client Alpha on my Debian Sarge machine, but it does not seem to support video. What sould I install to view streaming QuickTime in SL? Thanks in advance. At the moment there is no video support in the linux client, as stated in the release notes and/or readme files.... |
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Antonius Misfit
Certifiable Linux Addict
Join date: 13 Jun 2006
Posts: 97
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Try MPlayer or VLC
02-07-2007 08:14
One poor man's way of getting movies from SL is to run the secondlife script from the command-line, hit the play button on the "Movie" tab, look for the stream URL in the terminal messages, then pass the URL to MPlayer or VLC.
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Ylikone Obscure
Amatuer Troll
Join date: 24 Jan 2007
Posts: 335
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02-07-2007 08:57
From: Antonius Misfit One poor man's way of getting movies from SL is to run the secondlife script from the command-line, hit the play button on the "Movie" tab, look for the stream URL in the terminal messages, then pass the URL to MPlayer or VLC. I wonder why they couldn't integrate this into the Linux client? But perhaps they can, they just haven't gotten around to it, as it is still called "alpha". |
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Tofu Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 29 Aug 2006
Posts: 471
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02-07-2007 11:20
I'll be implementing in-world video playing at some point - it's the last reasonably obvious missing in-world feature for the Linux client (embedded Mozilla support is landing soon). It will very likely use the GStreamer framework due to a spectrum of IP impedance in most other 3rd-party libraries. I have no time estimate for completion right now!
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Antonius Misfit
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Join date: 13 Jun 2006
Posts: 97
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A GStreamer backend? Cool!
02-07-2007 19:02
From: Tofu Linden I'll be implementing in-world video playing at some point - it's the last reasonably obvious missing in-world feature for the Linux client (embedded Mozilla support is landing soon). It will very likely use the GStreamer framework due to a spectrum of IP impedance in most other 3rd-party libraries. I have no time estimate for completion right now! Definitely looking forward to that. Using wrapper scripts to launch an external player, while it works, isn't very elegant for me. And since GStreamer might be used for video playback, maybe in a very future release it could handle audio too? Who knows, it might solve the "SL chokes on Ogg streams" problem  |