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Support for 180 degree equirectangular video #126

Open orkunkilinc opened 8 years ago

orkunkilinc commented 8 years ago

Hi spatial-media team and other contributers,

I am trying to get youtube to display my 180 degree equirectangular video properly but even changing the paramters such as

FullPanoWidthPixels
FullPanoHeightPixels
CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels
CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels

to trick youtube to warp it properly but unfortuantely that does not work.

I'm begnning to think that Youtube does not support this but even my efforts to go around this and trick Youtube to do this failed.

Only solution I have come up with is adding black padding around the video so that real video is represented in half of the video(180 degrees) but this is highly CPU intensive and not ideal.

If you have any ideas or possible solutions I would be really happy to hear them.

Thanks!

suderman-google commented 8 years ago

Hey Orkun,

Unfortunately YouTube does not support cropped 360 videos so to upload your video you will need to add the black bars you mentioned. Sorry we can not be of more help.

dcower commented 8 years ago

Hi there,

As @suderman-google said, YouTube does not support changing FullPanoWidthPixels/FullPanoHeightPixels/CroppedAreaImageWidthPixels/CroppedAreaImageHeightPixels from their default values.

Going forward, we are considering support in the Spherical Video v2 RFC and YouTube for a mechanism that would allow for specifying videos like this. Could you specify exactly what you're looking for? E.g., do you need lens distortion accounted for?

Thanks, Dillon

orkunkilinc commented 8 years ago

Hi Dillon,

I am using a camera with fisheye lens mounted on the wall with practical view of 180 degrees. So some crude fisheye distortion correction would be awesome. Since it is wall mounted the image consists of 180 degrees horizontal view.

Can you guys give me any information about when Spherical Video v2 RFC will be implemented in YouTube?

Also I am willing to help as far as in me lies to make this process go faster.

Thanks, Orkun