Sound Support in Flash

henri_smeets · Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:53 pm

When can we expect the option to ad a sound file looping in the background in the published Flash panoramas?

PS, Nice to see a lively support forum, I've totally abandoned Immervisions stuff due to bad support and lack of innovation.

Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:52 pm

As Qt (the framework I am using) will offer sound support in their next release I will wait for this feature until Qt 4.4 is available to make my (cross platform) live a little bit easier. Currently their plan is to release it in 1Q08 and so is my plan to add those features 2-4 weeks after their release.

henri_smeets · Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:36 pm

Great, keep us posted

Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:32 am

The new release date by Trolltech is May 2008 so I added a sound support for HTML templates into beta5.

henri_smeets · Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:49 pm

Hi Thomas,

Is there any news yet on the sound integration possibilities of Pano2VR, are you planning to include this in the near future?

Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:14 pm

As Trolltech moved their schedule back for 4.4 and it is still full of bugs (I am hoping now for 4.4.2) I also moved my schedule back. I plan the sound features for Pano2VR 2.3, coming hopefully this year.

henri_smeets · Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:48 pm

Those silly little Trolls, an unreliable bunch of creatures

Forgive me my impatience, it is just that I want to offer my clients an even better panoramic experience with sound, while keeping the online placement and integration with CMS's as simple as possible. I've been recording sounds for this on almost every panorama I shoot. For now I'll just use the mp3 or wav playing options.

henri_smeets · Wed Nov 05, 2008 5:39 pm

I just saw that Trolltech has released version 4.5 by now. Any news on the sound possibilities in Pano2VR?

Wed Nov 05, 2008 6:45 pm

henri_smeets wrote:I just saw that Trolltech has released version 4.5 by now. Any news on the sound possibilities in Pano2VR?

It will be in available with Pano2VR 2.3

henri_smeets · Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:57 pm

Grrrrrreat, can't wait

RBilsland · Thu Nov 06, 2008 2:13 pm

Thomas,

Will this be general non-directional looping sound or will you be able to embed sound sources to positions within a panorama that will then come and go as you pan around? (just wondering because if it is directional sound, I'll get recording some directional sounds!).

Thanks,

Bob Bilsland.

smooth · Thu Nov 06, 2008 3:54 pm

Must be directional, pointless otherwise. We have always be able to add simple sound file.

Regards, Smooth

Thu Nov 06, 2008 4:53 pm

RBilsland wrote:Will this be general non-directional looping sound or will you be able to embed sound sources to positions within a panorama that will then come and go as you pan around? (just wondering because if it is directional sound, I'll get recording some directional sounds!).

Yes, it will be directional sound.

Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:06 pm

YEA<--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------->YEA

Does this mean mean STEREO tracks for left and right speakers? OR sound from the ocean when looking towards the ocean?

smooth · Thu Nov 06, 2008 5:21 pm

Directional sound will come into "focus" (for lack of a better term) and fade out of focus as you pan into/or out of the sound focus zone area.
So yes, looking at the ocean you could have waves lapping, looking towards picnic table people talking and look to the sky and hear birds chirping etc.

I did this many years ago with PTViewer and Windows Media Player with a train station, overpass and crossing. Was always limited by it needing Windows media player.
Each "zone" for sound will be able to run it's own stereo tracks I would assume.

Will be a great addition to Pano2VR.

Regards, Smooth