On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:10 AM, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:46:05 -0700 > Neil Birkbeck <neil.birkb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If you use "spherical-video" and put it in the stream's metadata, it >> will more naturally agree with location in stream-level tag in mkv: >> https://github.com/google/spatial-media/blob/master/docs/spherical-video-rfc.md > > (Replying to both.) > > This kind of metadata is basically for user info and things like tags. > It should NOT be used to export semantic/mandatory information about > the video stream. > > To make it even worse, ffmpeg.c will happily put those tags into other > container/codecs, which means using metadata for this information will > likely produce broken files that can only be read by ffmpeg itself.
One developer from Libav is working on defining side-data for this spherical data. If you want to push this forward I suggest you join those efforts. ie. this patch for mov: https://patches.libav.org/patch/60300/ (part of a longer series) - Hendrik _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
