360 stereoscopic video don't start at the same time

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Hi,

I am with P2VR 5.1
I have done some 360 video and put them in P2VR. Offline everything is working fine, but online, I have a huge gap between both eyes. Is there a way to preload the 2 videos first, then start them playing to avoid this 5 or 10 s gap between them?

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Hi Oli,
Video does not work, as you have seen it can not sync properly.
The cardboard output is for panos only with basic navigation.
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thanks Hopki,

Any tricks to make it work? Do I have to upload it on youtube rather trying to do it in P2VR?
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Or do you recommend any good js web based video player ? (Maybe are you planning to develop one in js?)

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I found that google viewer and some others are using 2 stacked videos for 360 stereoscopic video (2 stacked videos in the same video file, so no more time gap between the 2 eyes).
Are you planing to do something like that soon?
Can I use your skin within google viewer? (how?)
https://developers.google.com/vr/concepts/vrview-web
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Hi Oli,
Yes at the moment we separate the two views using the HTML page so they are to separate outputs in a sense so can not be sync.
We plan to bring this all into the player and in so doing have far more control.
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thanks Hopki.
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By the way, Hopki, do you think it will be in the next release? (pano kolor already integrated it, so I was wondering if you will do it soon...)

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Hi Old,
As said we separate the views in the HTML page, the player Kolor use split the screen in the player.
Will will be doing this at some point but can I ask what platform will you be using Android or Apple?
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I know that apple is limited with video output to 1920x1080. So we will use android as we can play even 4k videos. There is a nice blog about video compression for 360 stereo video :
https://purplepill.io/blog/best-encodin ... vr-videos/

I was pointing to kolor because on their website they talking about playing the 360stereo video with the oculus, but not within a web player... That is what confused me. Apparently only google and another guy on github are working on a js player with both eyes of the video sticked together, which would allow to have a perfect synchro between the 2 eyes. I tested the google player but it is a little crap (implementation is not easy if you want something simple).

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Have a look at this thread: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=11583
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thanks for that Hopki.
That's interesting. But I think, I still prefer the html way...for compatiblity.
I will wait until you release an updated viewer for stereoscopic stacked video.

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