[opensource-dev] Viewer Tools Upgrades - with a call for help

[Cinder Roxley]

On February 25, 2015 at 6:49:56 AM, Henri Beauchamp (sldev at free.fr) wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:03:29 -0800, Darien Caldwell wrote: 

> I'm pretty sure the reasoning behind LL moving all the multimedia to a 
> plugin system was so that 3rd parties could write their own plugins. 

I doubt it... 
Yeah, that was kind of the whole point of the change.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Media_Rendering_Plugin_System

Though it doesn’t appear that work in this was ever completed. (You still have the build the entire viewer to build and test a media rendering plugin. You need to stay relatively in sync upstream so releasing these plugins can’t really be independent from viewer-release and can’t realistically be released and work across the board with tpv’s based on Snowstorm.)

Outside of that, there are many other factors as to why nobody has developed a media plugin. For one, licensing costs money, and us lowly, non-commercial developers cannot afford or do not wish to shell out money to pay for codec licenses like mp3.

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