Here we present some tips to play with a footage taken by Sony's Bloggie, using PanoDoughnutFlashVideo_v30:
1) Ryubin's Flash Panorama viewers (RFP viewers) well accept an MP4 file as it is, meaning that you do not need to change the file extension to "flv" or "f4v". What you need to do is just set the name of your MP4 file in your XML file as follows, and place your video ("MAH00012.MP4" in this case) within the "video" directory :
<play_objects>
<image path="../video/MAH00012.MP4" init_loudness="0.5" />
........
</play_objects>
2) RFP panorama video viewers (i.e. MotionVR players) such as PanoDoughnutFlashVideo, PanoFisheyeFlashVideo and PanoVerticalFisheyeFlashVideo have a capability of on-the-fly cropping, meaning that you do not need to crop the doughnut or fisheye video image beforehand through a batch process using some video editing software. What you need to do is just place the following code within your XML file.
<play_objects>
...........
<crop width="0.544" height="0.966" cx="0.494" cy="0.505" inner_circle="0.25"/>
...........
</play_objects>
3) All other settings such as "projections (elevation and depression) ", "field of view", "degree of pitch", "degree of yaw", "range of vertical travel", "image flipping" and other viewing experiences or playing behaviors can be flexibly and freely customizable by changing the following piece of code upon your preference. Here is a sample code that meets the Bloggie's condition. (We try to mean this is merely an example. (note1))
<play_objects>
...............
<projection elevation="41" depression="10" />
<view init_fov="45" init_pitch="15" init_filter="yes" flip_vertical="yes" limit_vertical="yes" top_limit="41" bottom_limit="10" seg_lock="low" quality_lock="no" unlock_for_non_rectilinear="yes" />
</play_objects>
Now, let's take a look at a sample setting that uses a Bloggie's doughnut movie kindly provided by Terry Thrift.
Click here to see the sample.
Click here to download a zip file which contains all of the files needed to replicate the sample.
Feel free to contact us if you need more guidance.
note1: According to Akila Ninomiya et al., Sony officialy states that Bloggie's 360-deg. lens vertically travels -10 to 41 degrees.
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