Rotate 360 video with ffmpeg

Question

I have 360° video and I want to fine tune its orientation with ffmpeg. I need to rotate it by 90° clockwise horizontally (turn it left). I found some helpful resources stating that the rotate filter would do the trick. So I tried:

ffmpeg -i Petr_doskok.mp4 -vf "scale=2048x1024,rotate=-PI/2"  -r 30 -c:v libx265 -b:v 15M -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -b:a 192K Petr_doskok_rotated.mp4
ffmpeg version 4.1.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2019 the FFmpeg developers
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'Petr_doskok.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand     : isom
minor_version   : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder         : Lavf58.20.100
Duration: 00:00:29.06, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 58095 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 4096x2048, 57948 kb/s, SAR 1:1 DAR 2:1, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 15360 tbn, 60 tbc (default)
Metadata:
  handler_name    : VideoHandler
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 184 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
  handler_name    : SoundHandler
Stream mapping:
 Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (h264 (native) -> hevc (libx265))
 Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (aac (native) -> aac (native))
x265 [info]: Slices                              : 1
x265 [info]: Residual QT: max TU size, max depth : 32 / 1 inter / 1 intra
x265 [info]: ME / range / subpel / merge         : hex / 57 / 2 / 2
x265 [info]: Keyframe min / max / scenecut / bias: 25 / 250 / 40 / 5.00
x265 [info]: Lookahead / bframes / badapt        : 20 / 4 / 2
x265 [info]: b-pyramid / weightp / weightb       : 1 / 1 / 0
x265 [info]: References / ref-limit  cu / depth  : 3 / on / on
x265 [info]: AQ: mode / str / qg-size / cu-tree  : 2 / 1.0 / 32 / 1
x265 [info]: Rate Control / qCompress            : ABR-15000 kbps / 0.60
x265 [info]: tools: rd=3 psy-rd=2.00 rskip signhide tmvp strong-intra-smoothing
x265 [info]: tools: lslices=6 deblock sao
Output #0, mp4, to 'Petr_doskok_rotated.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand     : isom
minor_version   : 512
compatible_brands: isomiso2avc1mp41
encoder         : Lavf58.20.100
Stream #0:0(und): Video: hevc (libx265) (hev1 / 0x31766568), yuv420p, 2048x1024 [SAR 1:1 DAR 2:1], q=2-31, 15000 kb/s, 30 fps, 15360 tbn, 30 tbc (default)
Metadata:
  handler_name    : VideoHandler
  encoder         : Lavc58.35.100 libx265
Stream #0:1(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 192 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
  handler_name    : SoundHandler
  encoder         : Lavc58.35.100 aac
frame=  841 fps=9.8 q=-0.0 Lsize=   54721kB time=00:00:28.03     bitrate=15991.5kbits/s speed=0.326x
video:54028kB audio:659kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:2kB muxing overhead: 0.062856%
x265 [info]: frame I:      4, Avg QP:15.99  kb/s: 39026.34
x265 [info]: frame P:    214, Avg QP:16.15  kb/s: 30083.41
x265 [info]: frame B:    623, Avg QP:19.72  kb/s: 10727.28
x265 [info]: Weighted P-Frames: Y:0.0% UV:0.0%
x265 [info]: consecutive B-frames: 0.5% 0.9% 17.9% 73.9% 6.9%

encoded 841 frames in 86.02s (9.78 fps), 15787.22 kb/s, Avg QP:18.80
[aac @ 000001faa3ead7c0] Qavg: 289.921

Well, the video was really rotated - vertically! The documentation does not reference the 360° video production: http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#rotate. What is the correct parameter value for my case?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '19 at 18:36

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For turning video by 90 degrees clockwise use transpose ffmpeg filter instead.

answered Sep 09 '19 at 18:36

I need a spherical rotation of 360 video. Maybe I misunderstood the docs but transpose changes rows to columns and vice versa. – Leos Literak Sep 09 '19 at 18:42
I just tried "transpose=2" and it rotated complete video, not the view inside sphere – Leos Literak Sep 09 '19 at 18:51
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Well, for rotating 360 video view use v360 filter, you need git master version, as no release of FFmpeg yet have it. – Sep 09 '19 at 20:53
Wow, I have not aware of of this filter! – Leos Literak Sep 10 '19 at 06:39
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It is CPU only though, but GPU variant is planned in future too. – Sep 10 '19 at 17:51

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '21 at 13:12

Do the following to work with any 360 video:

ffmpeg -i "FileName" -vf v360=e:e:yaw=90:pitch=0:roll=0 "OutputFile"

Change the "=e:e" to whatever format you need. The example above is set to equirectangular.

More tips here:

https://gist.github.com/nickkraakman/e351f3c917ab1991b7c9339e10578049

Reference and output format lists here:

https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#v360

Rotate 360 video with ffmpeg

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