VLC 360° Technical Preview

Can someone familiar with the project explain why Linux support isn't available yet? I'm not familiar with how VLC's code is structured, other than a Qt-driven interface. I guess I assumed that the backend was cross-platform as well. Does the 360 degree support depend on libraries that are not yet widely available for Linux?

360-degree feature request: interpolating 360 degree video from standard 16:9 Lost episode format. This should be doable as most information is there in previous and future frames so a 3d Photosynth (Microsoft) like model can be build. The rest can be guesed or be given a default texture themed by the surrounding pixels (like Philips Ambient), similar as to how people color black and white pictures or enlarge pictures with fractal-based interpolation techniques.

Where can I get some decent Creative Commons 360 video resources to play around with this or some decent paid film I can buy made in this format?<p>I am Looking forward to the watching films with a VR headset when support is added next year. Good stuff jbk and team

Well done, I like the possibility to change the &quot;focal length&quot;. One thing I don&#x27;t like on Youtube 360° videos is that they are too zoomed in this makes it difficult to watch.

Not to be pedantic, but it should be called spherical video. :P

Any Linux support (build) yet ? It seems to indicate that it works on MacOS and Windows only.

Just a bit of feedback: One thing I noticed, compared to the 2.2.4 version is the errors and warning popup.<p>On the 2.2.4 version, all errors&#x2F;warnings (eg: from a playlist which hits some 404s) appear in a small single list window and do not require a click OK to continue.<p>This new version pops all errors into a separate pop-up which requires an OK to dismiss.<p>Pretty annoying.<p>Otherwise, great to see 360 video adoption.<p>ps: Also, I used to be able to drag the video around (or to another monitor) in the middle of the player screen. Now it appears that I have to grab the title bar.

I get 360 degree video, but is there support for 360 degree stereoscopic video? For example can you load two 360 degree videos taken an inch apart and play together?

Whoa that&#x27;s pretty impressive.

This is nice and all, but where&#x27;s the Chromecast support they promised a long time ago?

Will this eventually work with the hardware on my Pixel XL and my Daydream headset?

How to enable stereographic (&quot;little planet&quot;) projection?

I wonder when something like this will be available for mpv.

I don&#x27;t want to be rude, but you <i>really</i> should use the official URL: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.videolan.org&#x2F;~jb&#x2F;Builds&#x2F;360&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;people.videolan.org&#x2F;~jb&#x2F;Builds&#x2F;360&#x2F;</a> .<p>The current link is quite fishy, tbh.<p>Source: I wrote this page and this build, and I lead VLC development...

No disrespect is meant to OP, but since I don&#x27;t know anything about softwarecrew.com and the site looks sketchy as hell, I would offer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nightlies.videolan.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nightlies.videolan.org&#x2F;</a>

This site makes me feel dirty.

Meanwhile, subtitle support hasn&#x27;t been working for weeks. And it still takes 5-6 clicks to even download a subtitle, while on other players it&#x27;s either automatic or 1 click away. Why does the VLC team care so little about subtitles? This could be trivial to fix with a small UI change, yet it would have a big impact on people who need subtitles.