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Hello.

Just an idea... it's technically possible to integrate the videos of YouTube in Minetest, by the intermediary of a big screen ?

It would be nice to build a cinema, for example...

Regards,
JP

jp wrote:Hello.

Just an idea... it's technically possible to integrate the videos of YouTube in Minetest, by the intermediary of a big screen ?

It would be nice to build a cinema, for example...

Regards,
JP

sorry, but it's impossible with the current engine of minetest because the frame rates are too slow for viewing videos ingame
i also asked webdesigner97 for this question
have a nice day :)
Lukeking

But I think this is possible for MT: http://www.computercraft.info/
This will be a nice feature for MT too :)

Lukeking wrote:But I think this is possible for MT: http://www.computercraft.info/
This will be a nice feature for MT too :)

This is not possible with the current modding api.

With irrlicht, the 3d engine minetest uses, you can render to textures.

So it is possible, just not with the modding API.

However, I suggest the playing bypasses the server, and the client just plays it. The server can tell it what to play, though.

You can download a video, turn every frame into an png image and combine them into an animated texture. I tried it with my gemalde mod some time ago, in general it works but takes very long to load.

Casimir wrote:You can download a video, turn every frame into an png image and combine them into an animated texture. I tried it with my gemalde mod some time ago, in general it works but takes very long to load.

And YouTube videos are bound to have tons of frames.

Downloading the textures from a heavily-modded server takes a looooong time. Videos won't be faster ;)

It should found a way to externalize the loading of the videos. Not hosting them but to have a direct linking with YouTube and a converter script in game to turn in animated texture.

I know, I'm dreaming...

jp wrote:It should found a way to externalize the loading of the videos. Not hosting them but to have a direct linking with YouTube and a converter script in game to turn in animated texture.

I know, I'm dreaming...

Easier would be to externalise loading AND converting. As said up there, convert your videos to animated PNGs and host them somewhere (HTTP). Then develop a Lua mod that will fetch them.

thetoon wrote:

jp wrote:It should found a way to externalize the loading of the videos. Not hosting them but to have a direct linking with YouTube and a converter script in game to turn in animated texture.

I know, I'm dreaming...

Easier would be to externalise loading AND converting. As said up there, convert your videos to animated PNGs and host them somewhere (HTTP). Then develop a Lua mod that will fetch them.

This sounds realistic

• external loading and converting videos

• upload them to a certain website (maybe accessable or not for external users)

• import picture frames + sound file

• ..lua-mod is listing/updating videos' list

• sitting back and enjoy watching videos

External loading and converting a video on each request of player. With a loading bar under the screen, for example.

This won't work because:
1) Resources can not get sent to the client at runtime, everyone would have to rejoin to add another video.
2) Everyone would need to download every video when joining, that would take quite some time
3) A 3 minute video with 30 fps in (wide) 480p resolution (and R8G8B8 pixel fmt) would be 6.17 GB uncompressed (you would need to have atleast this much video ram & normal ram) and 1.40 GB compressed (my tests resulted in 4.34x smaller files when using PNG over uncompressed), downloading 1.40 GB would take 15 minutes and 55 seconds with a 15 Mb/s connection

sfan5 wrote:

Lukeking wrote:But I think this is possible for MT: http://www.computercraft.info/
This will be a nice feature for MT too :)

This is not possible with the current modding api.

Huh? Have you tried FORTH computer from Technic game? :)

RealBadAngel wrote:

sfan5 wrote:

Lukeking wrote:But I think this is possible for MT: http://www.computercraft.info/
This will be a nice feature for MT too :)

This is not possible with the current modding api.

Huh? Have you tried FORTH computer from Technic game? :)

I was referring to the youtube integration idea.