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Now this is a cool tip: Callum Linden points out that it's possible to stream videos from YouTube's new mobile video site into Second Life, and Torley blogs how to do it. If I'm reading this right, it's a great hack for landowners to get around bandwidth costs, when they want to stream movies on their property.
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It would be a good hack, if it carried more than a handful of the most popular videos. Sadly, the pickings are very slim. At least for now.
Posted by: rikomatic | Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Nice. Unexpected, but nice.
Posted by: csven | Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 03:17 PM
it's the iphone driving this conversion, right? i believe all videos are to be available this way within a couple months.
Posted by: qarl | Friday, June 22, 2007 at 07:36 AM
Thanks for noticing, Jamlet, and for your comments, rik, csven, and qarl (I'll be lowercase too!). :)
And I was chatting with Callum, looks like Apple wants to gear up bigtime with YouTube for the Apple TV, so hopefully we get more quality H.264-encoded content. I wonder if existing videos will be retroactively encoded, tho... I reckon (1) YouTube has the originally-uploaded files stored on its servers and (2) seems like it'd take a long time, even with mega server power.
Posted by: torley | Friday, June 22, 2007 at 08:55 PM