Yesterday, I converted 3 of my videos to .MOV and uploaded them to blip.tv. Blip.tv is very much like YouTube except that blip.tv provides a direct link to the uploaded video in its actual format which in my case .MOV. This allowed me to stream the video from blip.tv into my place in Second Life, 3 Stars and a Sun, by copying the URL of the link and pasting it on my rented land’s media field.

To better control the streams I used FreeView where you can place the URLs in a notecard. I also placed a huge 20×20x0.5 box and used it as a huge viewer.

Currently, the video that is streaming is Gladiator Fights.

Video must be enabled on your Second Life client to play video streams. If not then you must enable it in your Preferences under Audio and Video. Once enabled just click the play button on the movie tab which is at the bottom of your screen, just above the toolbar.

If you wish to use the streams in your own land then just go to my blip.tv channel, select a video, click on This episode’s permalink, then copy the url of the link named Download Quicktime (.mov) and paste it on your land’s media field.