How well does Youtube support the VR180 format?

[borisb...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am trying do define a custom projection mesh based on the VR180 format. I modified the spatial media injector to inject the custom mesh but youtube doesn't accept this mesh. I filed this as an issue already: https://github.com/google/spatial-media/issues/210. I suspect that the metadata is rejected because Youtube does not support the VR180 format (at this point I am quite shure that the metadata is correct according to the VR180 specification).

Does anybody have any idea how well the VR180 format is supported by Youtube or how I can find documentation about the support?

Or does anybody have an idea how I can contact somebody that may know this (I cannot contact Youtube because my videos aren't terribly succesfull). 

From my reverse engineering I already know that:

- Fish-eye meshes are supported. Even minimal versions (4 triangles).

- A simple planar mesh is supported (2 triangles).

- Two planes with an angle between them is not supported (I don't understand why this is so differenct from a fish-eye mesh).

Cheers,

[Mike Swanson]

My understanding is that YouTube has excellent VR180 support (as Google invented the format). However, in my experience, they don't allow you to upload arbitrary meshes...likely because they need to control performance and compatibility across many different platforms. It seems that there's a "whitelisted" set of mesh parameters that can be uploaded successfully.

Mike

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