There is a bug in snowglobe based viewers that prevents youtube videos from playing in TV when the videos are in MP4 format. This causes the Youtube videos to display a white screen on the TV. This also affects Emerald Beta viewers.Other viewers like Viewer 1.23, Viewer 2, regular Emerald 1636 are not affected.
The solution for Snowglobe/Emerald Beta users is to watch the YouTube videos in Flash format. We have added an option to the TV, to switch youtube videos to stream in Flash. This will get Youtube videos working again for snowglobe users.
This feature requires updating the TV to the new version 6.1.6 (The new TV version now in the Store). Free updaters are available in the store to update older TVs to support this new feature.
Using the new TV version:
To Switch the TV to stream YouTube videos in Flash;
Click on the TV Main Menu -> Options -> Use Flash.
This will make the TV Stream all YouTube videos in flash video format, good for viewers based on Snowglobe 1.3.2 like Emerald Beta version.
To switch the YouTube videos back to Stream in MP4 format,
Click on the TV Main Menu -> Options button -> Use MP4.
The TVs need to be updated first to get the Flash option. The Free updaters are now in the Stores. Sorry for the issues. We are adjusting to the new viewers and changes.
The new Update is for the DreamTV, ZoomTV, Plasma TV, I hope to release an update for the YouTube TV pro over the weekend. This update is optional, only required for users of snowglobe based viewers.
Note that snowglobe's media plugin system is not yet as stable as Viewer 1.23 Quicktime parcel media player. There may still be issues playing flash videos in snowglobe, results may vary for each computer.
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Thanks.
2 comments:
I tried Flash Option and MP4 option in @homeEnt SL store but the screen TV is always white.
I use Viewer 2. What should i do?
SL Member: Creative Starfall
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Hi Creative,
Where you at the @home Wall Sim store? Some of the TVs there are disabled from playing videos because we have a fashion store under it. I think maybe that TV wasn't playing videos at all because it was disabled. But I will check it with you when i log in today. I will IM you.
Thanks :)
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