video on all platforms?

image360 · July 26, 2011 at 5:12 AM

For flash, the obvious choice is flv format, and from what I've read here it now seems you can use animated GIF's as a alturl on iOS.

If you don't use the flash based video plugin, are other video formats supported on iOS devices?

Do you need to use a java based "box" to bypass any limits?

cheers,

Robert

Zephyr · July 26, 2011 at 3:26 PM

You can use HTML5 video tag and the mp4 video file format, to display videos on idevices. For a customer I developed a videoplugin.js for krpano that works like videoplayer.swf. NDA though. Just saying its possible (and not to hard). Volume isnt suported though on idevices. So you cant mute/lower volume.

klaus.krpano · July 28, 2011 at 5:15 PM

Hi,

just as note - a videoplayer plugin for the krpanoJS viewer will be included in the next release,

best regards,
Klaus

Nupsi · July 29, 2011 at 11:16 AM

OMG Klaus, this is the best news ever Can´t wait for it

Best regards
NUPSI

image360 · July 29, 2011 at 5:45 PM

That is great news, any info on formats supported?

Hopefully at least one with alpha support.

Cheers,

Robert

sachagriffin · July 29, 2011 at 8:10 PM

There is ONE format for html5 which is h.264 mp4 and flv for flash.
FLV supports built in alpha channels and I think 264 does not.
So most likely, you'll need to have two formats always.

image360 · August 14, 2011 at 7:07 PM

thought this might work but it appears not to, guess I'll just have to add a image hotspot and for the flash part, disable it.

url="videoplayer.swf" alturl="V-small-fromMVI.gif"

Or am I wrong, should this work?

Cheers,

Robert

Zephyr · August 15, 2011 at 1:34 PM

I dont think ipads play gif

image360 · August 16, 2011 at 2:50 AM

They do, I saw it today. Can't show it as it's client work yet done.

Animated GIF's do work, but without distorted="true" it's a lesser value to the work I'm doing.

iPad and especially IPhones suck when it comes to working with 360's with any level of complication. Perhaps one day all will be one world.

Ya right

Robert

image360 · August 16, 2011 at 3:49 AM

I had animated gifs working on iPhone's early today, now I have sound, and other gifs working with links, etc. but now without any change to the animated gif it no longer works on an iphone. I've yet to be able to test this on an iPad so who knows.

Apple has quickly moved from the professionals choice of platforms to the professionals nightmare of platforms.

If viewed as a opportunity, it means lock your clients into maintenance contracts as what works today, will not work tomorrow. Just be sure to charge enough to cover many hours of frustration :)

Robert

image360 · August 16, 2011 at 9:55 PM

The animated GIF does work on the iPad even with the music files, other links, etc.

My guess is that since the soundfile has to be preloaded the iPhone (a 3Gs) runs out of memory before it can load the animated GIF. I've asked someone associated with the project to check if a iPhone4 stills works.

Perhaps there needs to be altalturls to target the iPhone, or IPad or ......

I know there is the device tag which is currently a way around this, but it seems like it would be cleaner to have one soundfile or video file plugin with different alturl tags for each device if needed.

Cheers,

Robert

image360 · August 20, 2011 at 3:33 AM

I continue to see very inconsistent behavior from my current iPhone, a 3Gs. Now the animated GIF works even though I've not changed anything, no xml changes, no GIF or any other file change. But now it works with the music, etc.

What fun

Robert

sachagriffin · August 20, 2011 at 4:19 AM

Usually it's a caching issue. Safari desktop will make you insane. Sometime you need to force quit safari mobile.
Using php and non caching headers alleviates some pain. Use a lot of versioning in traces to ensure you're see the right XML.

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