Encode, Upload, and View
This is the 2nd of a two part tutorial where I show how you can use videos inside of Second Life. In part one I showed how video works and in this installment I show you how to convert your own videos for viewing in-world. You’ll see how to convert videos using Quicktime Pro and also a free program for Windows called Internet Video Converter. Then you can even host your videos for free on Blip.tv.
Thank you so much, your tutorial came on a good time to help me to handle with video convertion for SL…thakn you very much!
Tom Reddevil wrote on March 13th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Hey, you forgot to tell us about “hinting” the .mov video so it allows you to watch the video without fully downloading it entirely first (so you can instead stream it and watch it on the fly)
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media streamen in Second Life - Second life forum - Nederlandse Secondlife community wrote on September 17th, 2008 at 12:19 am
hi
First of all thanks a lot for a detailed tutorial.
After following all the steps thoroughly shown in the tutorial, i am unable to see the video playing in SL.
i have set up a prim with the same texture and copied the URL too.
What might be the problem?. Kindly help me to resolve this.
Thanks a lot for your time and for your wonderful tutorial.
regards,
vinod kumbar
vinod Forzane(AV) wrote on September 20th, 2008 at 3:28 am
vinod: My first guess would be that you are trying to view the video in SL on land that you do not own. You are only able to change the media URL on land that you own, or with Group owned land where you (or the Deeded object) have permission to change the media URL.
When you go in to the About Land window, are you able to change the media URL?
When you press play on the video controls, can you see the video playing there where you choose the media texture? IF you can see it there, but not on your prim then there is a problem with the texture on the prim.
Is the media type set Video in the media settings. Since I made this tutorial there have been some new options added to the media tab. Make sure it is not set to Web or Image, especially if you are using an Mpeg4 video.
Also, if you haven’t so so already you might want to watch part 1 of this tutorial. It explains a bit more about the basics of using video in SL, after you have a compatible video ready to watch. http://www.shiny-life.com/2007/12/31/how-to-use-video-in-second-life/
Vlad Bjornson wrote on September 20th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Vlad! You’re wonderful…
I had been vastly over doing it with my videos: size, frame rate, bit rate the works (the only thing I was getting right was the codec ;c) So, of course, they were too large to play effectively in SL.
Thank you so much for making this video and explaining it all so clearly! Fabulous work :c))
Sandry wrote on November 28th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Awesome, Sandry, glad that you got your videos working. :)
Vlad Bjornson wrote on November 28th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
