Would streaming movies to the cinima be possible this way?

[Kuri]

http://www.ogre3d.org/docs/manual/manual_69.html#External-Texture-Sources
I'm technologically challenged but i think game engine update to newer version might be required to make this work, not even sure if it could be done with current resources.  Just random thought.

[Kerriki]

Moving this over to the game opinions/ideas board since this seems more to be an idea rather than a discussion~

[FlyingGrass]

I think it would require handing the movie file to everyone(Putting copyrighted material on other PCs for free, which is frowned upon by the creator of the copyrighted material), as well as giving everyone specific instructions saying they must replace the old movie file, people may make a backup of the other movie file until they've collected every movie for free.

[Jango_Fett]

not sure if this would work honestly

[Lucius]

You know, that's not such a bad idea. The only problem is that people would have to download the movie files. Unless those files would be linked externally, such as by a url, but I am not even sure if OGRE allows for that. Then, the host could just overwrite the file wherever it's uploaded with new movies every time they're streamed.

Another way could be to have the host's screen streamed online to a specific url, which is then linked in the material file, in order to stream the movie on the screen in real time.

However, I am unsure if the OGRE version that the game uses is capable of that. They've had a few updates to the engine after FH came out, so it might not be up to date enough to even manage that. Not to mention that it would add extra load onto the server.

[Vilivikhorith]

"External" in this sense doesn't mean over the internet (Ogre3D has no netcode, after all), but rather using non-bitmap images for texture data. In this case, you'd be using the frames of a video to texture a surface (this is probably a good way to get animated textures!). Unfortunately, I don't think the plugin (AdvancedTextureManager) is set as active in the source, so the material doesn't display any cool animated pictures (no texture loads, no errors in standard output, so it is my best guess.).

[Kuri]

Fair enough.  (Gutted, so hoping a VLC plugin or something could be jerryrigged to work)