[sldev] NSV Support

[Ernie Kabowski]

Hello all. I accidentally posted a proposal to the SL Business list after reading it's description and seeing "developers" in it. I'll make it again here.

I'm working with the 1.18.2.0 source. I managed to write some rough code that works seamlessly with the parcel media URI system already implemented. If there's any interest I may continue with it and submit it.

I just wanted to know if there was any interest in NSV or not. Someone mentioned another SDK or something that had a more broad range of codec support, but I think they where ignorant to it's licensing and platform support.

NSV is even supported on OpenBSD without any third party packages or custom drivers. It's also got a really large user base already. AOL uses it for there video services, and there are also literally hundreds of non-commercial streams.

The system I have now adds some conditional code around the parcel media URI submission system. It identifies the resource by headers and parses it's bit stream accordingly.

The main reason to consider it is it's more bandwidth friendly. It'll buffer and play any bit length faster that Apple Video, WMV, Real, or any other codec protocol combination I have found so far. There may be a faster alternative, but it doesn't have near the selection of media as NSV, there are also a lot of hosting company's now providing NSV front ends for rational prices.

It uses MP3 for audio and VP3 for video, and has a XML based bit stream wrapper for it's protocol.