Bill Luken's software download page

The following software can be downloaded from here:


  • Rotate or flip a Quicktime video:

    Does your digital camera capture Quicktime videos? Have you ever tried to capture a scene in "portrait" format by turning the camera 90 degrees, like you do with still photos? The utilities in the Quicktime six-pack will make it possible to view the resulting video with Apple's Quicktime player.

    Rotate a Quicktime video by a multiple of 90 degrees, flip horizontally, or flip vertically. Six tiny utilities, each less than 10k bytes. These six utilities should work for any Quicktime video with a moov atom. They do not work for Quicktime videos with a cmov atom.

    The following software can tell you whether a Quicktime video has a moov atom or a cmov atom.


  • Create a textual description of a Quicktime .mov file:

  • Create a textual description of an avi or wav (riff) file:

  • Create an xml-based textual description of a Shockwave Flash .swf file:


  • ActiveX for PanoramIX for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers:

    Normally, this should be installed automatically when you load a web page that uses the PanoramIX ActiveX control.

  • Netscape plug-in for PanoramIX for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers, with Java extensions for interactive web pages:

  • PanoramIX image stitching utility for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers.

    This is based on an older version of the sofware contained in the PC versions.

  • A combination of all four PanoramIX modules for PowerPC-based Macintosh computers: PanoramIX-PPC.sit.hqx, PanoramIX-nPPC.sit.hqx, PanoramIX-aPPC.hqx, and PanoramIX-authorPPC.sit.hqx.

  • PanoramIX installation module for Windows PCs:

    This can be used in cases where the automatic installation does not work.

    Click here for more information.

  • PanoramIX ActiveX control:

    Pix32.cab is normally installed automatically the first time one uses MS Internet Explorer to load a web page that uses the PanoramIX ActiveX control.

  • IBM HotMedia-Panorama Java version of PanoramIX:

    Includes class files, instructions, and an example.

  • Netscape plug-in for PanoramIX, with Java extensions for interactive web pages:

  • An example of how to include a PanoramIX scene in a web page:

  • Another example of how to include a PanoramIX scene in a web page:


  • Created August 6, 2002. Updated Sept. 25, 2002. Updated Feb. 12, 2003. Updated June 20, 2005. Updated June 5, 2013.