Hi Tony,
Thank you for your reply and all the time you spent putting this together.
It is most appreciated!
I went to the web page(s) you set up with the comparisons and could not get
A (original file) to work which I think I should expect? However, I could
not get B (imported, converted and exported from CubicConverter) and C
(saved as self-contained movie from QTPro) to play on my system. I am
running Mac OS X 10.2.6 on a Dual 1GHz desktop with 1GB RAM. I believe I
have all the latest software releases from Apple in regards to Java. I
tried this with MS Internet Explorer for Mac 5.2 and Safari 1.0. Both
browsers stopped at "Loading Image... 80% Complete". I let it stay that
way for at least five minutes each time before closing the window. What is
interesting is that I tried it on this same system under Virtual PC/XP Pro
with MS Windows Internet Explorer 6.0 - both B and C worked. Have you
experienced anything like this?
Regarding opening the movie in QTPro and saving as a Self-Contained movie in
order to make the order correct: In case you are not aware of it, there is
a PTViewer param that might help:
======= PTViewer documentation (begin) =======
order - This parameter is used with QTVR- files. It determines the order of
the tiles (in the case of cylindrical panoramas), cubic-face images (in the
case of cubic panoramas) or individual movie frames (in the case of object
movies). If this order is non-standard, e.g. because the QTVR-file has been
flattened, then this parameter should contain a comma separated list of
numbers indicating the positions of the images.
======= PTViewer documentation (end) =======
I tried this with my test (taking the 72K stitched image sample posted on
the Tutorial and putting it through CubicConverter) and got it to work in
the correct order with the following values:
<param name="order" value="0,1,5,2,3,4,6">
Regards,
Will
> Message: 7
> Reply-To: <email@hidden>
> From: <email@hidden>
> To: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Cubics with PTViewer
> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:38:25 +1000
> Organization: Red Square
>
> Hi Will,
>
> I'm not really sure what the root cause of the problem is but I think
> its tied in with which software program was used to do the stiching.
>
> We use a single .mov file in our web sites and deliver it to the viewer
> via QT or PTViewer by detecting if they have QT installed or not. I use
> Panoweaver 3 Pro on the PC to do my stiching and I usually end up
> exporting the six faces for retouching. In order to have a single .mov
> file work in both QT and PTViewer I need to do the following:
>
> 1. Import the 6 faces in CubicConverter (Mac)
> 2. Convert to a movie
> 3. Export the movie
>
> Note: at this point the movie will work in QT and PTViewer; but in
> PTViewer the faces will be out of order!
>
> 4. Open the movie in QTPro and save as a Self-Contained movie.
>
> This movie will now play perfectly in both QT and PTViewer (go figure)
>
> Hey! If anyone has a better way I would love to know.
>
> In regard to the movie you mentioned in your email I opened it into
> CubicConverter and followed steps 2,3 & 4 after opening the movie in
> CubicConverter.
>
> I have put the results up online (its still using the 2.4mb file so it
> takes a while to download)
>
> A. Original file - sheldoniansq.mov
> http://www.tonyredhead.com/vrml/original.htm
> B. Sheldoniansq.mov imported, converted and exported from CubicConverter
> - sheldoniansq_cc.mov http://www.tonyredhead.com/vrml/ccexport.htm
> C. Sheldoniansq_cc.mov opened,saved as (self-contained movie) from QTPro
> - sheldoniansq_qtsave.mov http://www.tonyredhead.com/vrml/qtsaveas.htm
>
> FYI, here's an example of the way we deploy our single .mov file for YHA
> (Youth Hostels of Australia)
>
> 1. PTViewer version -
> http://www.yha.com.au/hostels/360_tour.cfm?hostelid=93&ptviewer=1
> 2. QT version - http://www.yha.com.au/hostels/360_tour.cfm?hostelid=93
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Tony
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