Wanted : Super-Screen / TV

Hey All,

Im not sure if this is exactly possible but ill give it a shot.


What im after is 2 massive super-screens which can be used (like u see at a live concert) which sit above a stage.

The catch is... Say i go into "mouselook" mode... i want the screens to show EXACTLY what i see in my screen. so in other words the "mouselook" view is the camera and the super-screens show what i see.

Is something like that possible?

And if so, who would like to make the screen and script and how much will it cost me? lol

Cheers
Pomfus.

PS... would need 2 be copyable and modifyable.

What you're asking for is well beyond the scope of just SL. Sure, you can make a big screen in SL, park it on a parcel of land, and tune the media settings to display your video stream. That part is really easy. The hard part is the streaming from your computer. You need software (and hardware) that can capture what you're looking at in real time from your desktop, and then broadcast that information to the internet as video in Quicktime format.

It can certainly be done, but it's not a small task. People do it at conventions and such all the time, but I've never seen anyone do it on an everyday basis. If you're interested, you might want to contact one of the companies that does steaming for large SL events, like ServerCave, and ask them for some tips.

I dont want to stream media... i want to stream the view i have in second life itself.... so what i see in SL (mouselook mode), every1 would see on the big screen.

"I dont want to stream media... i want to stream the view i have in second life itself.... so what i see in SL (mouselook mode), every1 would see on the big screen."

The only way to stream the view you have in Second Life is to capture video to disc (using the SL function for this, or a video camera pointed at your monitor) convert that video to quicktime movie format, get it onto somthing with large enough bandwidth to host the video for your audience, and stream it back into SL.

There is no direct mechanism in SL to put your realtime view into the game.

Pomfus, understand that the local client software through which you view Second Life is local, meaning it's on your computer. The persistent world that is SL resides on servers in San Francisco and other locations, and those servers never ever have any knowledge whatsoever of what you may or may not be looking at on your end. They simply store all the information that describes SL, and send you the pieces that are in the immediate vicinity of your avatar. What portions of that data you choose to look at at that point are entirely up to you. The servers don't know or care to know anything about it.

In order for you to share your visual experience with others, you need to send out information about what you're seeing. That means you need to stream video.

So, saying "I dont want to stream media... I want to stream the view I have in second life itself" is an oxymoronic statement. The "view" that you have IS video information. By definition, sending that information to other people, whether they be SL users or anyone else, is streaming media.

As I said before, and Easy has now echoed, the way to do what you're talking about, the ONLY way, is to capture your onscreen video in real time, convert it to a Quicktime movie, stream that Quicktime movie from your computer out to the internet, and then tune a land parcel in SL to the URL of your stream so it can display on inworld objects for people standing on that land. That's it.

The fastest I've ever seen it work is on about a 5 second delay, just so you know.

ok.

Cheers for ur help.
Much appreciated.