I believe the essence of his problem is that his clients are prevented
from downloading ANYTHING that isn't already part of their standard
Wintel install (or whatever you want to call their IT dept.'s standard
rollout); how then are they to download PanoCube as an alternative to a
QT dl?
To address his central question: AFAIK there is no QT equivalent of a
Director-style self-contained movie player...
To solve this problem he needs to know at least:
a) what browser plug-ins etc. are already present on the clients' PCs
that night be of use for this (PTViewer using Java? Unlikely on a stock
PC.)
b) and if none are present that might suffice, can he distribute to them
CDs with the standalone QT installer? (Assuming *that's* not too much
trouble itself - i.e., snail-mail.)
It may be that firewall paranoia *and* sneakernet paranoia (nix on
distributing CDs) will prevent a solution. A shame.
This does highlight the problem of QTVR content accessibility being
predicated on clients' unfettered access to the net, including
downloading of well-known (and, of course, safe) plug-in installers,
which in large corporate environments is not always a safe assumption.
How does an IT guy (I've been one, albeit mostly in the far easier to
manage ad agency Mac production environment) allow QTVR installer dl's
while also preventing questionable dl's (oh, let's say, Quake
installers...)? The quick and easy way is to disallow all such dl's via
firewall configs.
Ideally, an option might be to coordinate with the IT folks at the
clients' locations and have *them* handle the dl of the installer and
its distribution where needed. Cynical experience indicates, however,
that this is often unlikely to be agreed to. Surliness, laziness and/or
lack of time due to the constant attention to Windows network and
workstation crashes, and an unreasoning hostility to all things Mac
among PC sys-admins are things many of us have encountered. (Among the
staff I supported at the agency who had come from all-PC environments, I
often heard expressions of pleasant surprise at our unbegrudging
response to their tech support calls, as if being supported in a polite
and cheerful manner was not the norm to be expected.)
Good luck!
|Is there a way to save a QTVR as a self-contained file where having
|QuickTime on your PC is not an issue (or any plug-ins for that |matter)?
|We have already tried creating a projector in Director and playing
|around with QuickTime Pro. So far no luck...apparently you still need
|the QuickTime app on your PC.
||PanoCube doesn't use any of QuickTime componets to create QuickTime
movie.
||The only thing you need to have on your PC else are Helmut's
||PanoTools.
||There are free version on http://www.panoshow.com/panocube.htm and
||shareware version ( much more options ) on
||http://www.panoshow.com/panocubeplus.htm
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