Software for creating/viewing gigapixel panoramas on the web

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Having created some very large panoramas of landscapes (approaching the gigapixel size), I'd like to share this, but of course, you're limited to the jpeg dimensions and downloading humongous jpeg files isn't exactly user friendly, so I've started looking at tools that create flash-based or other web-friendly methods of allowing you to view the ultra high res whilst keeping download times to a minimum.

There are a few obvious choices: Kolor's Panotour Pro and Garden Knome's Pano2VR programs.

But being stingey or rather not wanting to spend lots of money on what is just a trial / play, I cannot justify buying those for the occasional one-offs.

Do you know of any other programs which are free / very low cost (say less than £30) that I can play with?

I've tried Ryubin's flash and whilst promising, I think it doesn't accept very large source files.

I already have the single pano source file so don't need any stitching software, just the "make it web friendly" conversion :)

Ta :)
 
That must have took some time. What did you you use to stitch it with?

Have you looked at Microsoft Photosynth. Not sure if that'll be any good, but I've put a few smaller pano's on that.
 
Photoshop has something similar built in, look at file/export/zoomify (tutorials on the web)
 
Hi Andrew, thanks, I'll take a look. The problem is not the stitching (done in PS) but how to present it in a usable format on the web. Will see what the MS version offers.

Wayne, thanks for the heads up. I did look into it, but couldn't get it to do quite what I want although I can't remember right now what was bugging me about it. In all fairness, I didn't think to look for tuts on the web - will do. :)
 
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