Recovering Multiresolution Flash Panos

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tksharpless
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I published quite a few panos with P2VR in the old Flash-only days, several of which are good enough to be worth re-publishing in HTML5, and I am gradually doing that. In several cases I no longer have the original P2VR projects, so I must laboriously extract cube face images from the swf files with JPEXS Flash Decompiler, rename them and convert to equi. However this does not work for high resolution panos that are stored in the swf as binary tiles rather than jpeg images. Do you know of any way to recover those?

On close inspection it appears that the binary tiles may contain jpeg file images prefixed with filenames. Can you verify that?

I do wish GG had built an automatic update tool, as krpano has so nicely done; but clearly that would no longer be worth the effort.
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Tony
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Hi,

I use to use Flashificator by Trausti and Flash Panorama Player by Denis in the old days. I took a look at a couple of projects I still have but they seem to have all of the pano cube faces in a 'visualfiles' folder. I moved to Pano2VR in 2010 when Apple dropped flash so all of my work from that date was in HTML so I'm not sure if Pano2VR stored the cube faces or not.

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Hmmm. All the files inside the SWF should be normal JPEGs, so you should be able to extract the tiles. For multiresolution the tiles should be external files in a folder, so those are even easier to batch convert. Even the XML should be inside the source code of the Flash file, so you could just use this XML, and recreated the HTML5 output this way.

Can you send me a link to a file that has those "binary" tiles?
MfG, Thomas
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