Accessing VR Media from another server for FPP Tour?

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Hi everyone,

I have a question (and I'll explain my scenario):

I have my business on my friends dedicated server at a colo here in San Francisco. I recently started my own service/server on mosso.com's cloud. Unfortunately the tours load considerably slower on the new cloud than my friends server (compare http://bayareavr.com/samples.html which is my friends server to a tour at http://www.bayareavr.com.php5-2.dfw1-1. ... mples.html which what I've recently subscribed to). The cloud is serving the tours up rather slow (at least for me at my desk here).

Any how mosso.com has what's called cloud files as a service. It's a file storage solution for either 1. having multimedia for quickdownloads or 2. a service for general back up like carbonite. The multi-media solution (cloud files) is a content delivery system based on a CDN network is a limelight networks which is supposed to be great for media delivery. (see here for more info: http://www.mosso.com/cloudfiles.jsp)

SO............

I've created a flashificator test tour of some cube face images on my local machine. I uploaded the cube faces to the mosso files area (which gives me a url). Media is on mosso clouds, all of the other html, xml, swf, etc is in a flashificator'ed folder on my desktop with my xml pointing to the mosso url with my cube faces in it. ... and it works ;)

But when I upload the files to my site (or a few sites for testing), the loading bar shows it as loading - and it goes to 100%, but all I say is my gray canvas, no media.

Here's my xml:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<panorama meta='Made with http://www.flashificator.com'>
<parameters>
panoName = http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c40082/pano1
panoType = cube
segments = 20
</parameters>
</panorama>

So it's pointed to the folder with the file name (pano1) ... but nothing comes up, from above is there any recommendations? Has anyone else hosted the "meat" of the the pano media on a separate server?

Any help, suggestions, anything for troubleshooting would be great ;)

I'm going to speak with mosso tech, but since there's so many variables with a flash pano, I thought I'd come here first. Once I get this figured out, it will be really interesting to see how the limelight (CDN) network does with the distribution .... I'll definitely share results!!!!

I posted this at flashificator, and Trausti recommended that I posted here ... thanks so much!!!

[siesfor]

I'm thinking it sounds like you need to set up a cross-domain policy file...



policyFile is used to load the policy file before the images

Use it to place the player file to the one domain and to load panorama images from another one.

Read this document to get to know more about Flash Player 9 security: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_9_security.pdf

Default value is empty string (no policy file be loaded).

Read the adobe security pdf from about the 27th page on down. It'll explain the how/why/etc. of setting up your policy, then just add the policy file's address to your FPP xml and it should hopefully be set.

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I'm about to jump into that manual - you're the man ;)

Thanks so much for the direction, cause I'm feeling really lost at this point!!

Eli

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that I need to

1: have my crossdomain.xml set up over at the mosso.com cloud files site for me

and 2: write policyFile=http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/crossdomain.xml in my xml?



Apparently I'm not the first to write about this here and it looks like you've helped others on their quest with this task :) ...

If anyone else searches for policyfile or crossdomain on here, you'll see some great past threads of other's on this journey ....

[siesfor]

though considering the kind of service they're providing, you'd have thought they'd already have a cross-domain policy set up like the other content providers.

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With the way that the server's are handled on mosso.com's cloud files site, it looks like there's no way for me to implement the crossdomain.xml file anywhere relevant. The tech on the phone said - this service is kind of like a hard drive, not a typical server. It's too bad - I REALLY wanted to see the speeds of the tours on their acclaimed limelight CDN network.

Oh well, I emailed my wish list this morning. I just wish I could have accomplished "something" yesterday. I guess I did get a mini-education on adobe file policies though :)