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VLC Media Player Previews 360-degree Video Support (videolan.org)
VideoLAN has released a technical preview of VLC Media Player 3.0 with 360-degree video support. The new build handles videos following the Spatial Video format, and photos and panoramas following the Spherical spec (the official test page has sample files). More on this: The files play back just like any other video, but you can now left-click and drag within the screen or use the numeric keypad arrows to look around. VideoLAN says there are multiple display modes -- Zoom, Little Planet and Reverse Little Planet -- although we couldn't immediately see how they were activated. This initial release is only available for Windows and Mac, but eventually 360-degree support will arrive for Android, iOS and Xbox One, with VR headset support likely to arrive in 2017.
I have been wanting to play these 360-videos on a media player for a long time to study things.
No it doesn't.
Finally, you can do a 360 in VLC.
I hate 360 videos on YouTube because I never know the "correct" place to look and to get it all you have to watch the video at least 4 times.
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Thanks, Windows 8.1, for randomly fucking about with the keyboard layout AGAIN.
Where were we? Ah, yes. If I wanted a headache, I'd just bang my head against the wall.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Still no useful bookmark support. Really the only reason I haven't switched mplayer / smplayer on my HTPC.
While I am sure there exist specialized applications for this, I fail to see what ordinary consumers get from it. The 360 degree images tend to be distorted, they add extraneous, irrelevant material, and the all around coverage makes the images in general less intuitive and realistic. This is seems to be the current, largely useless and unrequested fad, just as the ridiculous fake 3D TV was a few years ago.
vlc has gone into a regression-messin state.
Try a snapshot and look at the size of the captured image. Where did the extra 10 pixels come from?
Also, 4k is so far out of reach as far as performance is concerned even with hardware decoding.
Now if only they'd bother to fix the of tons bugs, and terrible GUI.
As someone who has literally used VLC for thousands of hours of content: I've accrued over a dozen bugs. I'm putting together a video on it.
A few gems:
- Complete disrespect for monitor gamma. Everything looks better in MPC. In VLC, everything is white washed.
- Incorrect use of streams. Ignores "disabled audio streams" which exist as secondary streams (other languages, as opposed to 5.1 and 2.0 of the primary language). VLC plays the first stream, so if you have content with RUSSIAN as the first track (even though it's disabled, per proper spec), enjoy manually switching the audio track every episode. But "Just press b!" the choir moaned! I guess my media center needs a full keyboard to make it useful then.
- And why the hell is there no Randomize playlist? They got room for useless features like AtmoLight but a shuffle mode that doesn't have a chance of replaying the same episode three times in a row--that's too much to ask.
- Oh, and don't you just love the complete lack of "default units" in the GUI? Sure, you can change gamma, contrast, and brightness, but if you dare to you better pray you remember where the normal values are because there's no digital readout, and no markers to show you defaults positions. And the scale of the GUI sliders is insane. The useful region of the Sharpness effect is between 0% and like 10%. The other 90% is useless over-sharpening. So that means you get to use a slider with a region of about a quarter of an inch. So you're stuck using the keyboard to fine-tune a control that should be mouse controllable.
- Post-processesing? Right-click you can set the post-processing. But the top menu shows post-processing as greyed out. Why? Because they broke post-processing in one update long ago and never fixed it. But not only that, they only disabled ONE of the two menus that allow you to adjust it. So they literally have broken GUI menus they never bothered to fix in "stable" versions.
Ugh. As a programmer, I have to ask? What the hell happened to VLC? Did their programmers all move on and get replaced with a bunch of people who have no idea what they're doing? (Happens more often then you think with open-source projects.)
Will this work with 360 videos downloaded from youtube? If so, then you have a bunch of content already available.