wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re: Event "Weather" underway; bigger uploads possible
cadlard 2015-Mar-06 12:25:00
Hi Markus,
Thank you for all your work! I don't seem to be able to get to the prep server - has the link changed?
Thanks, Chris.
On Wed, Mar 4th, 2015 at 3:33 AM, "Yahoo Account #removed# [wwp]"
<#removed#> wrote:
> Hello all,
> the upload period for the ?Weather? event is now underway, and I?d
> like to give some info about changes in uploading. We had a file size
> limit of ~7 MB before, and a recommendation for the pixel size of
> 6000-8000px (due to flash player limitations).
> The new JPEG upload size limit is now 10 MB, and the system can handle
> pixel sizes beyond the 8192px limit, too. So if your panorama is 10'000 x
> 5'000, no need to scale it down any more! You may still need to use
> JPEG compression at e.g. 60% to stay below the 10 MB, and I'd
> recommend to not push the width much higher than 12-14'000 px since this
> impacts viewing performance for our visitors.
> I'm also working on incorporating more of the "tiled loading" options of
> krpano, so even if there?s no immediately visible gain from uploading a
> bigger pano JPEG, there will be in the future.
> -Markus