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Zeta Eizenstark
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08-05-2009 10:45
Anyone know how to get videos from Vimeo to play on SL? Kinda sucks to be stuck to 10min videos from youtube. Thank you.
ElQ Homewood
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08-06-2009 05:37
as long as they are quicktime and gstreamer compatible, I've been able to play video from anywhere, any length. Not just Youtube. The key is the video format.
Zeta Eizenstark
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08-07-2009 08:14
I've also been having trouble with some youtube videos working. I use the code that gives me the youtubemp4.com url to play the videos and some of them don't play.
Osprey Therian
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08-07-2009 08:28
You can stream directly from blip.tv.
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Zeta Eizenstark
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08-07-2009 11:07
how do you do that exactly, just grabing the url and sticking in the play media?
ElQ Homewood
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08-08-2009 00:56
From: Zeta Eizenstark
I've also been having trouble with some youtube videos working. I use the code that gives me the youtubemp4.com url to play the videos and some of them don't play.

Yeah, they won't all play. It depends on the person who uploaded them. Not all uploads to youtube can be formatted as mp4, also, the account holder has the option to choose not to allow embedding of the video. If embedding is disabled, you won't be able to get it thru youtubemp4.com. Also, whenever somebody re-uploads a video to replace one in their youtube account it creates a new URL, so you may have a youtube video URL which works fine and an hour later no longer exists. It happens when you are dependent on another service. Best way to go with that is to have your lists which you want to play, and upload them to an account of your own so you control the options at youtube and you will at least usually know if the URL changes.
Osprey Therian
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08-08-2009 09:23
I upload in QT format, then there is a format menu to the right under the video. I choose Source, and get the url from the botttom of the page where the Download link is.
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Zeta Eizenstark
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08-11-2009 10:19
That worked beautifully, but a problem came up. It started to give me two urls. It originally gave me an url that started with a "a34.video2.blip.tv/etc...", and it worked, then it started to give me that didn't have the "a34.video", and that one didn't. Also, is there an easier way to the url at the bottom of the page...i had to reload it a couple times to write it down.

*edit* do only the .mov work or does .m4v work as well?
Zeta Eizenstark
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08-18-2009 08:06
Is it possible to get videos from ones personal database?
Darien Caldwell
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08-18-2009 08:44
As well, LL Just announced a new llMedia API that lets you write media plugins for the SL viewer. However it's not done with scripting, but Real Life C++ coding. More information here:

https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology/blog/2009/08/17/introducing-the-llmedia-api

So one could, if inclined, write a plugin that played whatever format Vimeo is using, or any other format for that matter.
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ElQ Homewood
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08-19-2009 01:50
From: Darien Caldwell
As well, LL Just announced a new llMedia API that lets you write media plugins for the SL viewer. However it's not done with scripting, but Real Life C++ coding. More information here:

https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/technology/blog/2009/08/17/introducing-the-llmedia-api

So one could, if inclined, write a plugin that played whatever format Vimeo is using, or any other format for that matter.


However, anybody you would ever want to actually view your video system would have to download and install the plugin :/