[sldev] Added streaming info for Linux, Windows/Mac version needed

[Dale Glass]

On Пятница 27 марта 2009 22:55:42 Ricky wrote:
> Well, if the user wanted background music... They could just load up
> their favorite media player.
>
> Yet I understand that playing a stream in-viewer which can be
> interrupted by parcel music would have a cleaner interface.  No dual
> streams for instance. But then, are we adding too much?  Does the SL
> viewer also need to be a media player?  After all, the next logical step
> from user-configurable default streams is user playlists and files... 
> VLC does all that for me quite nicely...
Well, I am not sure how many people will agree with me on this, but I think 
that SL, as a "virtual world" should be complete enough that you don't need 
to get out of it. Especially, if you can play music, then it should work 
well enough that you don't need an external player.

I don't think a full blown media player is needed, but in RL, if I don't 
like what's on TV in a bar I can pull out my own player. I think SL could 
use an equivalent of that.

Also, I think this would make things in SL better. I notice that most 
people use an external player. This is mostly because they don't like the 
current stream or there isn't any. But then they may not find out when 
something interesting does start playing.

> However...  Maybe the viewer could export a file, or server port, that
> was a copy of the stream from the current parcel media server?  This way
> I could point my favorite media player at that location and have it
> handle the selecting another track when the stream stops.
Hmm, I'd prefer something else: Have the possibility of using a LSL HUD to 
command the viewer to perform streaming tasks. Then I could have my "slpod" 
attached and use it to override the parcel stream if I want.

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