Can the MirrorDome play fulldome movies?
Yes. The MirrorDome can play all movie content that is in a square fisheye format. What is the required file format for fulldome movies on the MirrorDome? MirrorDome uses the powerful QuickTime playback engine to play fisheye movies. Any movie file must be in a QuickTime format, and must be playable by Apple’s QuickTime Player. What codecs can be used for fulldome movies? Any apple codec can be used to encode the movie, as long as it plays in Apple’s QuickTime Player. Note that some codecs are more efficient than others. Utilmatey the best codec to use is dependent on the content itself, but the Photo-JPEG codec generally gives a good compromise between image quality and file size. Isn’t Stellarium free? Why would I pay for it?? Stellarium isn’t “sold” with the MirrorDome, it is simply provided with the MirrorDome software, pre-configured and ready to use. Swinburne SpaceWorks provides the standard version of Stellarium with a MirrorDome system, it is not specially modified for warping
