Workaround for get_video_info request (#29333) Make get_video_info processing more robust (#29333) Dismiss tbr extracted from download URLs (#28927) Only call description endpoint if necessary (#29383) Update signature function patterns (#30363, #30366)

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.m4a -c:v copy -strict unofficial spherical.Show ffmpeg output on error (#22680, #29336) They need to be merged with the standard compliance mode to unofficial. That tells YouTube-DL to keep the original video and audio separate. So, run this: youtube-dl -user-agent '' -k.

This is because ffmpeg strips out Side data. HORRAY! But without the correct metadata. Now, when you download the video, you'll get the full resolution copy in equirectangular format. The fix is to pass a blank user agent: youtube-dl -user-agent ''. There's a bug in YouTube which means YouTube-DL sometimes gets served up slightly weird formats.

If we want the full resolution version, we need a bit more trickery. Yeuch!īut if you play it using VLC version 3 or above, you'll be able to drag the video around. It's a weird view out of both lenses simultaneously. If you play back the video in, say, the default Linux video player, it will look like this: That's the magic which tells a video player that this is a spherical / 360 video. If you run ffmpeg -hide_banner -i filename.mp4 then you should see this in the metadata: Side data:

There are two options available to you to get the equirectangular version needed to playback easily on Linux Easy Way This is in Google's Equi-angular Cubemap format. If you let YouTube-DL download the 'best' version, you'll end up with a video which looks like this:Įach lens' view has been horizontally stretched, and then stitched into an over/under view. You can drag the video to see all around. Here's one of mine, wandering through the Houses of Parliament. Inspired by this conversation on Mastodon

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