sl-tv is an open source media player for second life. it allows you to play video & audio in a somewhat synchronized fashion with other users in-world.
- supports youtube, bandcamp and soundcloud
- playing, skipping, queueing
- can list what's playing, queue and history on request
- controlled via chat commands
the system consists of three components;
- a web frontend that embeds content from hosts
- LSL scripts that open & control said embeds as shared media in-world
- helpful APIs for parsing video metadata from provided URLs
how this works exactly is better detailed on the homepage
in order to run the website and APIs, first install dependencies with
npm install.
start a development server:
npm run dev
# or start the server and open the app in a new browser tab
npm run dev -- --opento create a production version of web and APIs:
npm run buildthis spits out a node version of the app, but multiple adapters are supported. check out kit.svelte.dev/docs/adapters for more information.
you can preview the production build with npm run preview.