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360° Media Player - VLC goes 360
ynotfish
Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline
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Hi all -

For the 360 shooters & viewers, you may be interested to know that VLC Media Player has now added 360° playback for photos & videos. It's not up to full release yet, but you can download & test. There are a couple of samples available at that link.

A 360° camera hasn't found its way into my camera bags yet. I've only played with sample clips. Till now, I've been using the GoPro VR Player, which works really well.

Just sharing.

Cheers - Tony
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tomasc [Avatar]
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I d/l and installed the same player from the Kolor website. It is the same as the GoPro one. Works great on the downloaded 360 degrees video.

Great for those 360 movie trailers. Would like to see concerts and short movies in 360. sealed
stevek
Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline
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An added cost I had not considered when I bought a LG360 camcorder. It took great 360 video but you has to donwload the video to your smart phone to have it sticthed. From there you could copy the video to your computer and use Power Director to do some editing. All that was good.

The video size was the problem. The files were large and downloading them from the camcorder to my smart phone essentially ate up my allocation of data transfer for the month. I had not used my smart phone for other than a few telephone calls and text messages so I had a cheapie phone service. One 20 minute video cost me over $10 for using more data than was allowed. The quality of the video was poor at lower resolutions.

I contacted LG but received no information if I could sticth that video without the smart phone. I don't know if other 360 video sticthing are all like that.

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tomasc [Avatar]
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Quote I contacted LG but received no information if I could sticth that video without the smart phone. I don't know if other 360 video sticthing are all like that.


That doesn’t seem right so I went to the LG website and find the LG 360 Q&A answers are vague or not answered and not known from the LG rep. For the $150 direct it seem that I want to try it out if users think it is good. It would seem that you could have used Bluetooth or wi-fi or a data cable to do the transfer instead of phone data at $10 per GB used.

According to this post from Dafydd B’s sticky you should be able be able to download the windows app to do the stitching on your pc. Here is the link: http://www.cyberlink.com/learning/video/594/ . It is a 714K download.

If you still find that you must use the android app only and must use cell phone data then I don’t want it if I have to pay more than $2.00 for the LG 360 just to try it out. I will look at the alternative brands.
stevek
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tomasc, It will become a Christmas gift for someone else (slightly used)! .
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Page 12 in the LG 360 user manual state that Bluetooth and wi-fi is used with the android cell phone: Bluetooth® is used for pairing, and Wi-Fi is used for Preview and data transfers.

Page 8 in the same user manual show that usb cable is included for data transfers. It is connected to the jack at bottom of the camera. Data is stored in micro usb cards in the camera itself. R105_US_UM_v1.0... is the downloadable pdf manual. I don't feel so bad now. Don't need to use cell phone data at $10 per GB for some U.S. phone carriers.

Maybe the manual is wrong and stevek is right. Waiting to hear from other users of the LG 360. The LG website is bad about answering user's question in the Q&A and like stevek said he already contacted LG about it.
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Quote Page 12 in the LG 360 user manual state that Bluetooth and wi-fi is used with the android cell phone: Bluetooth® is used for pairing, and Wi-Fi is used for Preview and data transfers.

Page 8 in the same user manual show that usb cable is included for data transfers. It is connected to the jack at bottom of the camera. Data is stored in micro usb cards in the camera itself. R105_US_UM_v1.0... is the downloadable pdf manual. I don't feel so bad now. Don't need to use cell phone data at $10 per GB for some U.S. phone carriers.

Maybe the manual is wrong and stevek is right. Waiting to hear from other users of the LG 360. The LG website is bad about answering user's question in the Q&A and like stevek said he already contacted LG about it.




I'm using a Motorola Nexus 6 and can confirm that the 802.11 wlan signal from the lg360 was used and not my 4g data.

Perhaps there was an issue with the specific phone Steve had that recognized wlan data as wwan data.

The transfer does take a while.

I also downloaded the 360 video to my computer but the mpg file needs to be stitched by dragging the movie to the converter and uploading a codec (be careful to download the actual codec and not the two pieces of software placed just before the download you need).
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