Quick Media Related Question

Is it possible to figure out the length of a movie being played within SL or to know when it's finished so that you can do something else?

Nope. No way to do this with LSL. If you know the length of the movie before it starts playing you can set a timer, close as you can get. This is probably because a media file never goes through the LL servers. It goes straight from the web to the client, so there is no way for a script to know anything about the media.

There may be some tricky way to do it using a web-based program and http communication scripts, but not with LSL itself.

That's what I was thinking. At the moment we put the time in the playlist and it remains totally SL based (with the exception of the media itself obviously) but I've been told that some people are doing it without so figured either something new has come out regarding media functions in LSL that I've not seen or maybe it was done outside SL on a website maybe.

Not to worry, thanks for pretty much confirming what I already thought

OK, I've done a little asking around and it seems that there is no way to do it with something like PHP either and I can't install applications on my web server so I guess I'm stuck for now. Can't believe that nothing can quickly query a movie and get things like metadata from it describing resolution and/or play length

You could probably write a PHP script to do this based on the file type.

Surely you can know when a movie is finished by querying if the texture on the prim face is the movie texture, or the default texture, every 5 seconds or so, using llGetTexture.

Rock

Rock, you can't do that because as far as the server is concerned it's the same thing; it's the client that puts the video on the texture, and since the script is running on the server then the two will never meet.

Tyken, probably yes, but I don't know enough about it to do so myself and people who know more about it than me don't seem to know how either so I guess I'm stuck for now

You can extract the quick time header details on the server side using the perl module: Video::Info::Quicktime and then rely the information back into SL.

OK, thank you, I'll see if that's available to me. I assume it's not something I'll be able to add

For the Diamond Media System I created, I made a videotimer for the setup of one of the components. Simple timer - click when the video starts and the time starts, click again at the end and the videotimer tells you how many seconds the video ran for. LOL not much help, cuz I'm not inworld right now to look at the script, but I do remember it wasn't hard to do, using info from the scripting portal.