It’s rare for me not to find software for any given task in openSUSE, but there does seem to be something its software repositories are lacking. I recently discovered 360* panoramic images and videos, like this or this. However I can’t find any program in the repositories that I can view them with! And by view I mean a panorama viewer, which lets you define a desired FOV (Field of View) then look around with the mouse in any direction you desire. I’m interested in this for both images as well as videos. Does openSUSE have any applications to view panoramas with?
I typically run autostitch under wine for creation: http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html … there may be better links to find the program … as one gets many hits for it on the search engines.
They never created a linux version as the wine version ran so well.
I confess I don’t understand what you are looking for in a viewer
Not looking for a program to stitch panoramas, especially since I think I already have one installed (Hugin) and there’s probably plugins for image editors like Gimp as well. Only interested in a viewer.
What I’m looking for is basically a program that lets you see panoramic media correctly and look around in it. Technically this should mean zooming in to a specified amount (eg: a 45* angle from the overall 360*), seamlessly looping the image, and letting you move the focused area with the mouse… creating the impression that you turn your head and look around, and letting you rotate the view like in a FPS game. I know such programs exist, especially since Youtube added this exact feature recently (for privileged browsers only however).
Hi
Maybe one of these?
http://krpano.com/download/
http://freepv.sourceforge.net/
FreePV doesn’t seem to compile on openSUSE. Apparently it wants something called Gecko, although nothing about that is mentioned on the page mentioned. Any thoughts on that?
Might try the first one a bit later. It seems to be closed-source which tends to not work so well on Linux, but it might work. Thanks for the suggestions.
Once upon a time, gecko was the mozilla browsing engine. Is that no longer the case ?
I see. I have the Mozilla (Firefox & Thunderbird) development packages, but it still errors out about that. Searching for Gecko in the openSUSE software list doesn’t return anything relevant.
Maybe you can find something on the panotools wiki.
Have a look at this link http://wiki.panotools.org/Panorama_Viewers
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Only found one that seems to work, called FSPViewer. It doesn’t seem to be maintained and it’s also closed-source however. I’m surprised that none of the programs listed there were ever compiled and included in an openSUSE repository… such as Panini which is seemingly part of Hugin which is included