360-degree VR videos, also known as immersive videos or spherical videos, are video recordings where a view in every direction is recorded at the same time.
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Preserving Side Data information for 360 video transcoding using FFmpeg
I am trying to transcode a 360 Video using ffmpeg (to play on Gear VR, for now), mainly to reduce the bitrate (this is a requirement). But the output file seems to remove the "Side Data" that has the 360 video metadata.
Input file ffprobe result…

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Detect 360 degree video
I want to Detect 360 degree video
I want to find if the video format is 360 degree and based on that manage the player supported the 360 degree
So anybody can help ?

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Is there any way to tell if a video is 360 or panorama?
for a project I am working on I will need to automatically decide if a video is a VR (360) video, and if so what format it is. Is there any way to tell? I was thinking the metadata but could not find any information on this.

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How can I use ffmpeg to change 360 video projection?
I want to convert 360 videos from equirectangular to cubic projection. How can I do this with ffmpeg? What are other efficient open source approaches?

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How to display a 360 video frame by frame, for a desktop VR app in Unity?
Is it possible to control a 360 degrees video to move forward or backward in time (frame +/- 1) by the means of an event, like pressing a controller button?
The idea here is to have an environment extracted from a video. The video should not play.…

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Auto Detect Image for 360 nature in PHP
I am rendering a Property Detail page like below (can be accessed Here)
I have an image slider and a 360 Image viewer. Currently the user uploads both type of images manually i.e plain images from one interface and 360 images from other interface.…

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Android - 360 video metadata
So with ffmpeg I've concatenated two 360 videos into one. The problem is that I lost all the 360 video metadata in the final video (so it's not recognized as a 360 video anymore). If I use exiftool on the final video, I lack those metadatas…

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How to play 360 mp4 vids?
I'm fascinated by the 360 videos on YouTube as of recently. I'd like to develop a sample Android application that can play a 360 video and be able to pan/swipe with it along with being able to use accelerator/gyroscope.
Few questions:
What file…

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Record 360° video in unity is not equirectangular
I have a timeline project in Unity 2018.2.10f1. I use the Unity Recorder to export 360° video. This is the settings:
But the output is not equirectangular and cannot be played as 360° video:
What is wrong and how to fix it? Thank you
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360º degree camera in three.js
Does anyone know how to create a 360º camera in three.js?
I'm trying to render the entire scene as a 360º panorama like you would with a go pro 360 rig.
I'm trying to recreate a panorama by arranging several screens in a circle and stretch a threejs…

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iOS DeviceMotion yaw and roll on Landscape vs Portrait
I'm implementing a 360 video viewer on iOS using the gyroscope, I need to get two rotations for the video, I used this;
self.motionManager.deviceMotionUpdateInterval = 1.0/60.0;
if (self.motionManager.isDeviceMotionAvailable) {
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How to get the 360 VR video in the correct format for Android VR View
I think I figured out the issue i'm facing with my original question here. When I downloaded the 360 videos they look like a normal video file like this:
But for the VR View to work properly, the video needs to be split like this:
Is there any way…

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convert 2d location on 360 image to 3d location (in sphere)
I have a bunch of 360 equirectangular images an on each image i want to place a point of interest. To make this easy i just want to have to determine the 2d location of this point on the image. See image below for clarification:
Lets say that the…

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Rotate 360 video with ffmpeg
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…

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How do I properly reduce the resolution of a 360 video using ffmpeg?
I have tried reduction with the following technique from a scale of 2048:1024 with something like: ffmpeg -i eagle360half.mp4 -vf scale=1024:512 video360_1024.mp4 however the playback then becomes warped and warbly (visually similar to a bad vhs…

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