You can use whatever software to stitch the images that you want. However, only tours written in the krpano "language" can be used in the viewer. In short, you cannot use output XML files from another GUI unless it writes output in the krpano language, (which I believe Autopano Pro is the only official one at this time). There are a few people working on a GUI and have mentioned them here. I have not tested them and know nothing about them.

Edit: Here is a link.

http://www.autopano.net/en/photo-stitchi…ons/krpano.html

you are totally confused. none of the major 3 flash players work like that. no movies clips are created. you simply take any 2:1 images. By 2:1 i mean the length is twice as long as the width. i.e. 10000x5000 pixels or 5000x2500 pixels. take that image and drop it onto kmakemultirez from the krpano tools it will cut the large image up into numerous pieces and export the xml and html page for you to preview. from there you add your own tweaks to the xml file to make hotspots and plugins and interaction.

to make your 2:1 image you will need stichting software that krpano does not provide. depending on your camera and lens you will need anywhere from 3 - 24 shots to create a full 2:1. use either PTGui or autopano.

1. krpano - IMO the most tweakable but there is no polished GUI right now so you need to be able to understand xml. GUI editors are coming there are just none that i would concider a full product but we will have one soon.
2. flash panorama player w/ flashificator - 2 separate softwares but FCC if the GUI for FPP takes some of the need out of learning code.
3. pano2vr - great player for basic tours. you can make skins and hotspots it is just not as easy.

those are what most people would concider the top 3. 90% of all flash tours use 1 of those 3. check panoguide.com for more robust discussions on what software to use. although at that website most of the users are FPP + FCC users and always find a way to nitpick at krpano.

if you want software you will not grow out of start with krpano. if your desire is to make fast, quick tours without learning code FPP+FCC might be your ticket. krpano is updated constantly and Klaus is active in his forums. FPP has not had a version update in months and many quiestions go unanswered by the creator it is a strictly user driven platform.

there are lots of site that are doing what you want to try. it will be hard to become a big enough site for tour creators to decide to upload to yours. in addition it may be to ambituos to attempt to let people upload a tour from various different softwares. 360cities only lets users upload the 2:1 images they are converted automaticaly by 360cities into what you see on the site. it uses krpano as the player. do you have people lined up to contribute to such a site or are you hoping tour creators will do so?

From my experience, a lot of the realty sites iframe the "virtual tours".

The agent only has to submit a link to where the tour is hosted.

For example, the local mls site does this...



And in the case of realtor.com... they use that "red house" icon and just link to the "tour" to show in a resizeable pop-up window.

It will vary from mls to mls... but for it to be compatible across all of the systems... the agent is only submitting a link to the tour... then each site displays it however they like.