Video on Website - what software to use?

[Garibaldi]

Hi, I would like to add videos of a 360 panoram of cars to my website. I would like to have users be able to come on and select videos to view from a gallery of vids, and then once they are viewing a video of a particular car be able to pause, rewind, ff, and zoom in on the video so they can have a sort of VR of the vehicle. Do you know of any software that would make this possible for the web? Possibly free/open-source? Thanks for any help. Also what would be a good video type to use, mov or wmv?

[yoda313]

Hey garibaldi!

I know quicktime offers the 360 picture viewing. Though DEFINETELY not free.

You may want to look into quicktime alternatives that do the same thing. I dont' know of any off hand but using quicktime vr as a search term will probably give you some leads.

Good luck.

[thecoalman]

Haven't used it but this looks like it would fit the bill:

http://www.ulead.com/cool360/runme.htm

Output both Virtual Reality files and MOV files

This is for doing panorama's so you'd have to move the camera around the car instead of just spinning it on the tripod to get the right affect. If you were on a flat surface and hooked a string up to the cam to maintain the right distance from the cam it would probably work pretty good.

[Garibaldi]

The panoram stuff is a good idea, but at car shows there are always a ton of people walking around the cars - so it would be basically impossible to get that many clear photos at the same level ect. So is there a way to display videos in a gallery with special controls like pause, slow, save screenshot, zoom, ect? If I took a video I can do a quick once-over of the car and actually get the footage - I don't care about bandwidth. Also what containers would you recommend?

[thecoalman]

I haven't done anything like that but you would need something in flash or along those lines. You can probably do this with JS too but again I really never looked for anything like this so I don't know what the options are.

Now that I look at the documents for that product I posted above you need a special viewer to see them anyway.... Can be sent as a exe etc with the files or they would need to download the viewer... hardly web friendly.

Try this site: http://www.panoguide.com/

[Garibaldi]

I haven't done anything like that but you would need something in flash or along those lines. You can probably do this with JS too but again I really never looked for anything like this so I don't know what the options are.

Now that I look at the documents for that product I posted above you need a special viewer to see them anyway.... Can be sent as a exe etc with the files or they would need to download the viewer... hardly web friendly.

Try this site: http://www.panoguide.com/

I have worked only a little in flash and wouldn't have any idea on how to do it. Does anyone have any specific links they could recommend? The thing with this is I don't want to use an assortment of pictures - like I said it would be way to hard to get. If I can just grab a quick video that would be better. Basically all I want is a nice in-page video player with a bunch of features that doesn't require any fancy codecs or software to install? Does this help?