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Hi All, I am still having issues with degree based mesh videos. When I set the screenType to (for example) 220, it still only shows as a round circle (i.e its not being stretched at all). Support kindly gave me some advice over email, which was to use a different naming convention for the files than documented in the 'documentation'. I have given this a go but I am still not having any luck. This is what support told me to do:

Hello!
It looks like you are not preparing the final file correctly.
What camera do you use? We have 180-200-220 degree playback options.

To turn on the mode immediately, you must correctly name the file.
Side by Side SBS or LR
Top-Bottom TB or OverUnder
180° 180
360° 360(also for 270°)

For example:
Title_SBS_360.mp4 sets Side by Side & 360°

So that's what I did, but as mentioned it still isn't working. Here is the name of my file:

fisheye_SBS_200.mp4

and here is the contents of my config file:

{
"encodings":[
{
"name":"h264",
"videoSources":[

{
"resolution":1440,
"url":"http://192.168.27.80:9005/HV/fisheye_SBS_220.mp4"
}
]
}
],
"title":"Christmas Morning 2020 fisheye 220",

"screenType":"220",
"stereoMode":"sbs",
"skipIntro":0,
"is3d":true,
"id":50001

}

Can someone enlighten me as to what I am still doing wrong?

Many thanks!

9 days later

Thanks Tony I will give that a try and feedback my results.

Tony Thanks Tony that appears to work. I have to set the zoom level to 1.3 for it to render correctly, Is there a way to do this automatically in the config json file?

  • Tony replied to this.

      WatcherX
      No idea about zoom. I've asked the devs, but haven't gotten an answer as of yet.

        9 days later

        I had the same problem. The filename must contain: "MKX200","MKX220", "_VRCA220"

        Then, in the JSON you want to explicitly set screenType to nothing:
        "screenType":"",
        "stereoMode":"sbs",

        Setting it to anything other than an empty string will result in 180.