DennisS
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Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 16:16 GMT
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Wife got a Kindle Fire for Christams. She wants to view Flash based panoramas. The progress bar shows but never makes it past 0%. The Kindle is an Android based device. Ideas?
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DorinDXN
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Smooth
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 17:00 GMT
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As it appears to run on Android Gingerbread 2.3 the same as my Samsung Galaxy SII phone. I would suggest you visit the Android Market and download one of the free Flash Players.
I use the app "SWF Player" from issess.net
I read about root/un-root of this Kindle device on a google search (not sure if you have to or not?) Rooting something in Australia means something completely different to how the term is being used by you Yanks.
If something is rooted in Australia it is broken/stuffed/finished.
To root something or somebody is a sexual term! 
Like you can tell somebody to get rooted.
Anyway, you get the idea. No reason why the Android based device can't play your Flash panoramas. Though you might have to make allowances for memory (cube face sizes).
Regards, Smooth 
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 17:45 GMT
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Just install the ADOBE Flash 11 from the market.
As far as I can see the standard browser should support flash just like it does on most Android devices. If not, just install one of the other available browsers like the Dolphin or Opera Mobile. With Opera Mobile you may need to activate flash in preferences under advanced to load them directly without extra click each time. Same with Dolphin.
How nice your Pano2VR panos will play depends on how fast the processor is. Its a 1ghz with 512 mb Ram and that may set your limit quit low.
Panos with 2000x2000 cubefaces may be difficult to pan.
For some reason multitiled panos are much better at least KRpano works very good.
Hans
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 18:05 GMT
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Well maybe not quite as easy. Apparently Amazon wants to control everything that is installed on it. As Smooth says it may need to be rooted.
www.theverge.com/2011/12/16/2642039/amazon-kindle...
There seems to be different versions how easy this is depending on when you bought it.
Hans
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DennisS
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 18:48 GMT
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Low tech solution for a high tech problem.
The screen size on the Kindle Fire is 1024 x 600. Reducing the cube size to 1024 worked. The pano scrolls around nice and smooth. Nothing to download, nothing to install, nothing to hack (darn it!).
Is there a way for the html code to know the screen size of the device access the pano, then deliver the correct .swf file? I know that I am probably getting into some code writing here. That is ok, since I write code for a living.
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Smooth
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 18:53 GMT
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Pano2VR has mobile options and will sniff the screen resolution and display the correct tile sizes.
Regards, Smooth
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DennisS
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 20:48 GMT
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The mobile tab only comes up with HTML5. The on line tutorial does not match the latest version of Pano2VR. I tried to register for access to the Pano2VR forum, but did not see a link.
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Vilmer
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 21:32 GMT
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<script type="text/javascript">
if (screen.width < 1025) {
window.location = "mobile_flash/index.html";
}
</script>
should do the trick, note that also older types pc with a 1024x768 resolution will be redirected.
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Vilmer
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 26 Dec 2011 at 22:08 GMT
updated: 26 Dec 2011 at 22:09 GMT
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**edit: and of course all html5 mobile devices will also be effected by this script, so the mobile_flash/index.html will look like
<html>
<head>
<title>****</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
<script type="text/javascript" src="modernizr-1.5.min.js">
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
test=document.getElementById("test");
{if (Modernizr.csstransforms3d) {
location.href=('_html5/index.html');
}
else {location.href=('_flash/index.html');
}
}
</script>
<noscript>
<p class="warning">Please enable Javascript!</p>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>
you will need to download the modernizr-1.5.min.js sript and put it in your dir. strucure, for example here: gallery.vamos360.com/sea-dogs-pieterburen/moderni...
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DennisS
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 27 Dec 2011 at 0:50 GMT
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Thanks Vilmer. A couple of lines of script did the trick. Now, when someone goes to www.dlsphoto.net/Christmas2011 and has a screen size < 1025 (Kindle Fire), they get the low res version. If they are on a device (home PC) with a higher res, they get the high res version.
This pano was my first attempt at a group shot with people all around. I had the camera too high as there is too much distortion. That will be fixed next time.
It is also my first time using my NN M1L on the road. What a wonderful piece of equipment.
Now I have to get an HMTL5 device and start down that road.
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esub
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Re: Viewing panoramas on a Kindle Fire
Posted: 27 Dec 2011 at 0:50 GMT
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I think you need a cetain processor to allow Flash to work on Android. Not 100% sure, but if you have ARM, you can't use Flash.
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Thomas Krueger
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