Media Applications Programming Interface (API) for Second Life
From Virtual Worlds
In August 2009, Linden Lab announced availability of Media API for Second Life. In non-technical terms Media API allows you to work with (almost) any kinds of media in-world. For example, you want to show Flash movie or demonstrate Power Point presentation. "Out of the box" Second Life does not allow you to do this. With Media API, a software programmer can create a plug-in that will allow Second Life client to do this. The process is two-step. First, you need to modify a Second Life client so that it would be able to work with API. The good news, you need to do this only once. "API-aware" client will work with all plug-ins. Second, using Media API, you write a plug-in for a specific media type (flash, avi, mpeg, power point, etc.)
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