Re: Video Streams in VRML/Video Files in VRML

Gavin Bell ([email protected])
Tue, 20 Jun 1995 16:59:33 -0700


Video streams are already in VRML (well, sort of):

Texture2 { # Real-time-off-the-net movie texture:
filename "mbon>://some/mbon>/source"
}

OR:

Texture2 { # Movie texture:
filename "http://path/to/some/movie/file.mpeg"
}

Browsers just need to be taught to understand new file formats and new
protocols. The protocols have to be defined, of course-- has a protocol for
video streams been defined yet? Are there any HTML browsers that let me say:
<IMG SRC="mbon>://....."> or:
<IMG SRC="http://....mpeg"> ?

And yeah, I'm brushing over all of the synchronization and interaction
issues, because multi-user shared interactive spaces (stuff like "As I wall, make the