My understanding was that QuickTime was used to play MP3 URLs on a prim or parcel - QA reported that uninstalling QuickTime resulted in those files not playing anymore and that assertion is backed up by what's in mime_types.xml and it's friends.
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Darien Caldwell <darien.caldw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using CEF for media is what I've been saying since CEF support was > announced for the viewer. I think it would be a clean solution. The viewer > already runs 3 instances of CEF at startup, using one of those for media > wouldn't really add any additional load. > > The viewer is already using something else (FMODEX maybe) for MP3, as it > works without Quicktime installed. > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Callum Prentice (Callum) < > cal...@lindenlab.com> wrote: > >> Yep, that's a concern - I believe we used QuickTime to play MP3s too so >> that would be even more wasteful. >> >> The answer might be to do this anyway so we enable videos embedded in web >> content, play video URLs with the LibVLC plugin and come up with a >> lightweight solution (FMODEx??) for MP3s. >> >> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Cinder Roxley <cin...@alchemyviewer.org> >> wrote: >> >>> On May 18, 2016 at 5:40:18 PM, Callum Prentice (Callum) ( >>> cal...@lindenlab.com) wrote: >>> >>> Digesting all the suggestions here - thank you. >>> >>> Intrigued by Nicky's suggestion, I am currently trying to build CEF >>> directly via Chromium - first attempt is without the extra flags >>> (proprietary_codecs=1 ffmpeg_branding=Chrome). Building the branch in use >>> in the viewer failed with a bunch of errors - fixable but there were just >>> too many. Still not sure *why* it fails - I would expect specifying a >>> branch would chckout and build a tagged point in the repo that built. >>> Maybe because I'm on a slightly older Xcode and on 10.10 vs 10.11? >>> >>> Now trying the tip for OS X /64bit (only have my OS X box with me today) >>> - if this works (on 9856 of 15438 files) then I have high hopes we can >>> build it with the flags switched on for the platforms and bit widths we >>> care about. >>> >>> Do people agree that this would be the best solution? It would, I think >>> play media URLs directly in the CEF plugin like Chrome does and of course, >>> allow us to support embedded media. >>> >>> >>> I think it’s a little heavy to run a browser instance to play a video. >>> >>> -- >>> Cinder Roxley >>> Sent with Airmail >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >>> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >>> privileges >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> CALLUM PRENTICE | Software Engineer >> >> LINDEN LAB | Create Virtual Experiences <http://www.lindenlab.com/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > -- CALLUM PRENTICE | Software Engineer LINDEN LAB | Create Virtual Experiences <http://www.lindenlab.com/>
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