RE: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-24 Thread Kim Plowright
: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life On 10/6/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's a few news video podcasts in mp4 here (they play on QT7)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4977678.stmnone really suited to news SL

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-06 Thread blogHUD
you could if we (oops) they used Quicktime.We could use the video podcasts, if they have been done in mp4On 10/3/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice stuff Mario, I will check it out next time I'm in second life. Can you add some detail how you did it? I've only looked at the

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-06 Thread Mario Menti
On 10/6/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there's a few news video podcasts in mp4 here (they play on QT7)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4977678.stmnone really suited to news SL though (we'd need a News 24 or BBC World QT unicast stream), though the thought of David Dimbleby

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-03 Thread Tom Loosemore
cool - got a screengrab handy? On 03/10/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case there's any Second Lifers on this list, I thought I'd mention a little experiment I did last night - created a very simple BBC news ticker that cycles through the latest/newest 10 news items and displays

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-03 Thread Mario Menti
On 10/3/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cool - got a screengrab handy?Hi Tom - there's one linked from the post I mentioned, but here's a direct link: http://menti.net/bbcnewsticker.jpg What you can't see of course is the (currently a bit ugly) switching of the headlines every 10

RE: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-03 Thread Ian Forrester
Nice stuff Mario, I will check it out next time I'm in second life. Can you add some detail how you did it? I've only looked at the scripting language insecond life briefly. Just a thought, if you used the AV News RSS feeds, you could link to the stream which would actually stream into

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-03 Thread Mario Menti
On 10/3/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice stuff Mario, I will check it out next time I'm in second life. Can you add some detail how you did it? I've only looked at the scripting language insecond life briefly. Just a thought, if you used the AV News RSS feeds, you could

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-03 Thread Tom Loosemore
cool - got a screengrab handy? Hi Tom - there's one linked from the post I mentioned, but here's a direct link: http://menti.net/bbcnewsticker.jpg Doh. I'll get my coat... ta! -t - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-03 Thread Tom Loosemore
On 03/10/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nice stuff Mario, I will check it out next time I'm in second life. Can you add some detail how you did it? I've only looked at the scripting language in second life briefly. Just a

Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life

2006-10-03 Thread Mario Menti
On 10/3/06, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/10/06, Mario Menti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Re. the AV stream, for streaming in Second Life it would have to be a format supported by Quicktime, which (unless I'm mistaken) the BBC feeds aren't? Only on the multicast trial (recent versions