Play VR 360° videos on 2D screen using VLC

BEFORE

AFTER

Requirements:

Instructions:

  1. extract and run the exe file
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  2. click on open and choose the video
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  3. make sure “My video is spherical (360)” is checked
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  4. click “Inject metadata” and choose a path for the new video

  5. click save

have fun

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This looks great and I want to try it but I do not see any exe file in the download. In one of the readme files it mentions you can download PyInstaller to make an exe but I get a syntax error in Python when I try to run PyInstaller within Python. I know absolutely nothing about Python so that’s probably my biggest problem…

not sure which file are you downloading.
you need to download this one


here’s a direct link https://github.com/google/spatial-media/releases/download/v2.1/360.Video.Metadata.Tool.win.zip
after downloading the zip file you need to extract it and follow the instructions.

I see what I did. My dumb ass clicked on source code. Thanks for the help.

This worked great, thanks for sharing!

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Magic… Time to uninstall Whirligig. Thanks for sharing!

Just one concern - is it safe to delete the original video file? I hope this operation won’t cause any compatibility issue or modify the video in any way.

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glad it’s working for you.
not sure about compatibility issues but it modifies the metadata nothing more.

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@rampofoxxx

Any way to make this work with Media Player Classic BE?

You can’t do Funscripts with VLC unfortunately

i tried but didn’t work sadly…
you probably use Handycontrol but to solve the problem you have you can use Scriptplayer

Will try thank you!