RE: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
Mario Have you seen this? Might be up your street... http://www.3pointd.com/20061023/sustaining-the-metaverse-a-3pointd-think-tank/ (just saw your technorati pillars, nice!) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario MentiSent: 06 October 2006 19:03To: 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 though (we'd need a News 24 or BBC World QT unicast stream), though the thought of David Dimbleby hisQuestion Time guests warbling on within SL does have a warped appeal Yeah, I tried the newsnight one myself, and (once it had done downloading) was watching Kirstie Wark on a big screen in SL earlier today :-) Mario.
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
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 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 Second life? Or maybe not? Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mario MentiSent: 03 October 2006 16:19To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life 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 the headlines. For details and teleport/location see http://menti.net/?p=13It really is incredibly basic, but more features could of course be added (initially thinking of hooks to launch web browser, and the facility to select which flavour of the BBC news feed the screen should display. Cheers,Mario.
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 though (we'd need a News 24 or BBC World QT unicast stream), though the thought of David Dimbleby hisQuestion Time guests warbling on within SL does have a warped appealYeah, I tried the newsnight one myself, and (once it had done downloading) was watching Kirstie Wark on a big screen in SL earlier today :-) Mario.
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
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 the headlines. For details and teleport/location see http://menti.net/?p=13 It really is incredibly basic, but more features could of course be added (initially thinking of hooks to launch web browser, and the facility to select which flavour of the BBC news feed the screen should display. Cheers, Mario. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
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 seconds...
RE: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
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 Second life? Or maybe not? Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario MentiSent: 03 October 2006 16:19To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.ukSubject: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life 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 the headlines. For details and teleport/location see http://menti.net/?p=13It really is incredibly basic, but more features could of course be added (initially thinking of hooks to launch web browser, and the facility to select which "flavour" of the BBC news feed the screen should display. Cheers,Mario.
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
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 link to the stream which would actually stream into Second life? Or maybe not?Hi Ian,as I said, it's very basic... as there is still no way to display HTML as textures on a prim (a Second Life object), I use my own server (outside Second Life) to get the newest 10 headlines and create a .jpg for each headline. The object in Second Life uses the LSL (Linden scripting language) to make the http requests, and replace its texture with the updated media resource. Simple eh?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?Mario.
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
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 http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
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 thought, if you used the AV News RSS feeds, you could link to the stream which would actually stream into Second life? Or maybe not? Hi Ian, as I said, it's very basic... as there is still no way to display HTML as textures on a prim (a Second Life object), I use my own server (outside Second Life) to get the newest 10 headlines and create a .jpg for each headline. The object in Second Life uses the LSL (Linden scripting language) to make the http requests, and replace its texture with the updated media resource. Simple eh? 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? Mario. Only on the multicast trial (recent versions of QT support H264) http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/streams.html How does live video streaming work in Second life? Do you need to go via a proxy? There's also the odd news-related mp4 video downloads available as part of the podcast trial http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/4977678.stm (not *exactly* Second Life fodder, but you never know.. there's always space for some highbrow amid all the pron and gambling) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] BBC news ticker in Second Life
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 of QT support H264)http://support.bbc.co.uk/multicast/streams.htmlHow does live video streaming work in Second life? Do you need to go via a proxy?I guess the multicast is out of reach of mere mortals... :-)Streaming in SL streams directly to the Second Life client, no proxy involved. H264 would probably work, since SL pretty much uses the Quicktime Media Player. I'll volunteer to try it if I get access to the multicast.. Cheers,Mario.
