Multiple movies

How would I go about showing more than one movie at the same time on my land. I'd like to have one movie showing on one wall, and another different movie on the wall opposite, at the same time. Is there a script or piece of equipment that I need to buy to do this. Is it at all possible.

It's the simultaneous thing I'm finding hard, It's easy to find a media player that will handle lots of different streams, I just can't find one that can handle 2 diff movies (or more) to 2 different screens at the same time.

It's not the media player object that's the problem; it's the way SL handles video. You can only have one stream per parcel of land.

Just so you know, media player devices are actually completely unnecessary. All they do is automate the processes of choosing which texture to replace with the video, and tuning the land to a URL to fetch the stream. You can easily do the same thing by hand in about two seconds, completely without scripts of any kind.

Anyway, to do what you want, there are two possibilities. One is simply to subdivide your land into two parcels. You won't be able to see both videos at once, but you will be able to set your two walls to two different streams. Which one you see will depend on which piece of land you're standing on.

The second way to do it is to combine two movie into one, each covering half the "film" in each frame, similar to how you'd put two textures on one canvas. You'll need video editing software to do this, of course, and you'll have to host the movies yourself, either on your own server or via a hosting service, since you obviously won't be able to combine movies that are not yours to play with.

Use the repeat and offset settings on the two prims playing the movies to show a different half of the canvas on each, and you'll have the appearance of two individual movies, even though you're technically only playing one.

Another alternative is to use script-targetted movies - any specific user can only perceive one single Quicktime movie at a time, but different users can be watching different movies on the same land (and even on the same apparent "screen" surface!).

It probably requires you to do some custom scripting though, as I'm not aware of any products which handle this for you. The core of the trick is to pass a PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_AGENT and specify an individual Agent, when using llParcelMediaCommandList to set the video URL.