SPi-V 1.3 progress

SPi-V 1.3 is progressing nicely. For those of you who have not noticed, there has been a rather steady stream of beta updates.

Besides the viewer updates I am also working on finally updating the documentation. The documentation will reflect the state of the art in SPi-V 1.3, and may not be fully compatible with 1.2.x. But it should be better than what we had before ;-)

Though each beta release carries a warning that it is beta software and should not be used on production sites, I am getting more and more confident of the 1.3 release. The fullscreen panorama gallery is now using 1.3 beta.

Another site that is already using the beta is the Sziget 2005 project spearheaded by Andras Frenyo is offering 1.3 beta as an alternative to Quicktime. The Sziget 2005 site employs the quicktime parser script to parse the quicktime vr files and creates a SPi-V XML file from it. The image data is harvested from the original quicktime file on the fly, see this panorama.