DeoVR won't allow my video to be vr180 ?

philpw99

Just tried to test drive the video upload feature. I uploaded 3 VR180 videos to my channel. They are 3D VR180 mp4, 5760x5760, Top and Bottom clips.
Unfortunately all 3 videos were somehow set to "View Angle: 360", even though I specifically set it to "180". I tried to set the "Real View Angle" to be "180", but the website just won't let me, and show a red triangle saying, "Choose the real visible angle from 360 video if applicable, e.g. 180. "
So who gets to determine the "real visible angle" for the videos I uploaded to be 180 or 360 ? DeoVR or me ?
Or maybe DeoVR doesn't know that a 5760x2880 clip can be 180 degree, and only 2880x2880 clips are qualified as 180 degree ?
Btw, DeoVR player can play my clips locally without any problem.
A link to this video: https://creator.deovr.com/videos/edit?id=14682

philpw99

Hmm... Seems the process is quite nice.

The content inspection took a few hours
Conversion of 3 videos took less than a day.
They are unusual 5760x5760 videos, yet DeoVR was still able to convert them to 9 resolutions, all the way up to 5760p. It's quite commendable.

Now here are some suggestions:

Since the website has the option to let the uploader set the view angle, why not just let the uploader set the view angle? You don't trust me or something? I mean, in the beginning, I already stated that it was a 180 video, why DeoVR still made the decision that it was a 360 video, and not letting me change ? Now those videos are distorted and not watchable.
There is not really any use for all the other resolutions between 1080p and 5760p. Is there a way that let me choose the resolutions I would allow for this video ? By implementing this, DeoVR can save significant storage and machine power, and I got exactly what I need.

Nonetheless, I appreciate the great effort that DeoVR had done, to make sharing VR content as easy as possible. No need to say there are great potential for this market, as Meta Quest 3 is out, plenty of users will find DeoVR is the best way to consume some favorite VR videos. Hanging there guys !

fresh

If you did your first version with 360° by accident his might be releated to a problem I reported ages ago: The deovr client caches the projection properties in an internal database and changing these properties on the server doesn't do anything.

To work around this you have to change the title as well, that way the local database does get a new entry with the updated projection properties.

The internal database makes sense if there is no additional metadata provided. However, if json from the server is updated that internal database really should be updated, at least for the properties where deovr doesn't allow the user to override them.

philpw99

fresh
Sorry, but I am talking about the VR180 videos I uploaded to DeoVR.com as a test. Not the videos I have in my local drives.
The client works perfectly. It shows the local videos as 180 and everything looks fine.
But once I upload the video to DeoVR.com, somehow the website says it is a 360 video and doesn't allow me to change. It has nothing to do with the local database, because even when I just watch the video through the web player (not through the DeoVR player) , it's still showed in the wrong format.

KatDEO

philpw99 Hi! the projection was set up as 360 I believe. I asked our mods to check and change the projection. Thank you for uploading!

philpw99

Thank you! Always a pleasure, Kat.
The key point is being "if I set the projection to be 180 before the upload is done, could DeoVR please don't force it to be 360 or other format? I swear that I didn't lie about my video's format. "

KatDEO

philpw99 Quite possible that our moderators changed the projections by mistake

philpw99

Very nice ! I just checked the videos again and the problem is fixed!
The videos looks so much nicer from the browser now! I am going to check them with DeoVR player.
Thank you Kat and the Devs in DeoVR !!

KatDEO

philpw99 you're welcome 🙂

Hillbilly_Hobbyist

I feel your pain. I have now been 3 days trying to get my latest video working properly. The first time I think my cat walked across the keyboard and hit a hot key to convert the audio to mono without me noticing. I decided to improve the scenes by moving the 3d texts closer to camera and increasing the extrusion and decided to add one of my images at the end to give it a bit of a finale. I then set the audio back to stereo and uploaded. I had it set to 180 3d and somehow a flat tag got added to categories and the video takes up about 30 degrees of the screen, and to make matters worse I was at work all day so now quite a few people have viewed my crap video and will most likely skip it once properly loaded missing out on what I think is a very unique new way of viewing astro photos.

KatDEO

Hillbilly_Hobbyist sometimes we need to check / change the projection of the video. The quickest way is to email at creator@deovr.com and I will check the video uploaded and get our moderators or editors to help. If you need help editing videos or have any questions at all, I'm here. We just need a bit more info from you to help so email is a better option 🙂 Thank you for uploading to DeoVR!