The Big Biodiversity Butterfly count on the BBC
http://www.bigbiodiversitycount.org.uk/Opalapplication/BBBC%20on%20the%20BBC.mov
British Columbia Nature Trust
http://www.naturetrust.bc.ca/movies/ColdfishQT-best_Bband.mov
Luigi Colani: Translating Nature / Design Museum London
http://a37.video2.blip.tv/5910001843975/Henrichy0205blip-Colani2783.mp4
RNA Interference (long load time, but interesting educational content)
http://www.nature.com/focus/rnai/animations/rnai_revised_500x280.mov
One more quirk to mention that Jon didn't include in his list. After you
enter the URL of a video, you will see a "Loading" message in the upper
right corner of the screen. Once this message goes away, the video
window will resize to accommodate the aspect ratio of the video you have
just downloaded. Most of the times that I've tried it, the video window
stays black, giving you no feedback that the video is ready to play. You
have to click on the play button to see the video. This should be fixed
to show the first frame of the video (which it did do for me a few
times, but I haven't found a pattern yet).
Nicole.
* Select "Content Browser" from the Tools menu
* Navigate to your User directory
* Click on the Up arrow to get a file chooser dialog and select a video
file from your hard drive
* Add a video player to the world using the Insert Object dialog
* Take control of the video player
* Click on the folder icon
* Enter the content repository URL of your video (see below)
* WAIT until the Loading Video message goes away before clicking "Play"
When you add video to the content repository, the URL needs to be in
this form:
http://[your server address]:8080/webdav/content/users/[your user
name]/[video file name]
For example, if I uploaded a video called "MyTestVideo.mov" on the
community server, my URL would look like this:
http://owf1.virtualnorthstar.org:8080/webdav/content/users/Nicole/MyTestVideo.mov
If you want a nice video from the Internet, here's one from National
Geographic that I found:
http://l3-hl1.videos02.myspacecdn.com/videos02/14/8c9f6d6048984c948a1fb3ef9d805422/vid.mp4
To find this URL, I downloaded some video grabber software for my
Windows machine:
http://www.e2esoft.cn/flvcapture/
This application makes the media URLs from video sites visible when you
play the video inside the application window. Not all the URLs it
exposed worked, however. Before trying them in Wonderland, first try
them in a web browser window. I wasn't able to get any YouTube URLs that
worked, but I was able to get ones from Vimeo, MySpace, and MetaCafe
that did work. If someone has a YouTube URL that works in a browser
window, please test it inside OWL and let us know the results.
You can also use this software to download the videos to your computer
and then upload them to the content repository using the instructions above.
Nicole.
cheers,
Jos
Jos
cheers,
Jos
Another option is to find a volunteer who has the workspace built with
the video patches applied. In that case, they could send you
dist/wonderland.jar, which is the same as a nightly build.