Continuous sequential streaming possible ?

Basically what I am trying to accomplish is to allow a media player object, lets say for sh*ts and giggles...a plasma screen, to recognize when it is no longer displaying a media stream. The end result of which would be for it to set the next http that it is pulling from a note card and play it...then rise and repeat. Continuous sequential streaming...more like a normal TV and less like a DVD player. Assuming that its possible, with very little effort, you could actually create viewing channels instead of individual movies or clips.

The only solution that I can see is to use a timer and time each clip, movie, video, etc. individually. Which is just far too much effort for the return. I was thinking that there MIGHT be a way for the viewer to recognize the texture that it is displaying and when it displays its default media texture it then switches to the next http.

Anyhow I am far too brain dead at the moment to attempt to tackle this. I thought someone out there might have a clue and get the ball rolling. IMO if it cant be done without timers....well....why not. Seems like a normal progression of logic when your creating a media player anyhow.

Anyone got a clue ?

Currently, there's no way within LSL to know whether or not a texture/stream is valid.

So, the best solution is external. Sorta like mp3 streaming, build a video playlist that feeds your stream. I know it's possible, but I'm not sure how. It's no different than what you see at most media websites with streaming video. When you click to view a video, you get a 30-second commercial first. The commercial is dynamically inserted, based on a few factors such as your location, or prior viewing habits. Then, the video you want to see plays, sometimes followed by a second dynamic commercial. Same method could be used for your needs.

Since the video is streamed separately to each client, I think one person could view the beginning of a clip even as someone else if viewing the middle or end. This is client-side, and thus doesn't make sense to have the kind of control you're talking about. However, I would wait a couple of versions until HTML on prim surfaces is more implemented, and see what you can do with that.

One thing you can do, as a sort of work-around, is what I do to "stream" music off my webspace; set up a list of URLs along with number of seconds to the clip. When the stream is turned on, set a timer event equal to that length - people who come in during the middle will have the first movie they see "cut off", but past that it would be sequential.

Yea...I had kinda figured that there wasent' a 'simple' way to do this. I probably would of run across it at some time or another in the past. Though, I was kinda hanging on to the hope that there was something that I had over looked.

Timer settings in game will work I suppose. Just seems like alot of work for little return. Especially if you are pulling URLs from public sources. Which would change constantly and require constant updating.

Thanks

the solution i found was to set a timer the same legnth as the video in script the after time runs out move to next 1

Well, making it read a notecard for settings helps a little.

As does, in my case, pulling it from your own webspace.

ok, but how would you go about scripting a player that would pull a notcard off a web site and play the content URL's

Since notecards are SL created assets you cant.