The basic concept would be to do something like this.
http://smooth360.com/temp/video/
You would make a html link (using the _self option) in the "real tour" skin to another page that has a screen capture (or better) of your tour skin and within the viewer area you would have the video shown via an iFrame (inline frame) meaning you could replace of have multiple videos called into the same iFrame. Simply make another button to link back to the "real" virtual tour.
Really, now that Tourweaver can output in flash it would be a relative easy task to add a "streaming video" option to the preexisting viewer. Something I guess Easypano plan for a future release.
Obviously you would would make your video "fit" the viewer window correctly (something YouTube can't do) and optimise all skin objects and video for fast download. It would be easy enough to make all the thumbnails and buttons work via hyperlinks (or even API) so that when clicked it would return to the "real tour". Using API function could even be possible to have the "correct" scene load that was clicked.
Replacing the "map" area on the dummy video skin page with say a list of hyperlinks to available movies etc would add more interest and it would also make sense to the viewers.
Regards, Smooth
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