[sldev] Media Rendering Plugin Framework Interaction

[Lawson English]

Philippe (Merov) Bossut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Lawson English <lenglish5 at cox.net 
> <mailto:lenglish5 at cox.net>> wrote:
>
>     A little brainstorming about how future plugins might work and
>     what they might be able to do:
>
>     http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Saijanai_Kuhn/Plugins_discussion
>
>
>
> Wow! Lawson, you read my mind! Or may be I've been chatting too much 
> at the Hippo meetings... :)
>
>
>     In principle ANY internal event could be useful for some plugin or
>     another. Of course, some events would need to be passed to and
>     from the plugin at different points than other events, and some
>     events might not currently be "events" in a unified sense, but
>     everything from the raw (perhaps already parsed into LLSD)
>     packets, to GUI events, raw mouse/keyboard events, and data
>     from/to early parts of the rendering pipeline might be useful in
>     some context.
>
>
> Yes, there's a lot that could be done with plugins. Right now, it's 
> just "input" of "media" but one can imagine much more: output (better 
> snapshot, movie recording), camera handling, auto animation (a plugin 
> for presenters for instance using camera to detect movement and 
> trigger appropriate gestures), etc... I can see a lot of specific 
> requirements of vertical markets (education, training, medical) being 
> handled nicely with plugins rather than wholesale modification of the 
> viewer.
>
> Would be fun to organize an IW brainstorm session on this and see what 
> we collectively could come up with.
>

I'm sure Zha would be happy to open up the Tuesday slot for Groupies for 
this, or we could use Zero's office space/time slot since everyone is 
used to being online during those times. Or, any other timeslot for that 
matter. I can assure you that its a hot topic with realxtend folk also 
and posssibly with some of the libomv folk. Certainly most of the 
third-party viewer developers based off of the GPL code are interested 
in this kind of thing.

Lawson