Infinite Yaw and Pitch

[SamuelUlep]

In the current implementation of mpv360, the Yaw angle appears to be capped at 360°, and Pitch is similarly limited to around 180°. Is it technically feasible to remove these caps so that the viewing behavior matches YouTube’s 360° playback or is there a reason that prevents this?

[kasper93]

Could you provide more information about the issue? What is your input? Have you changed to projection ctrl+shift+p to Equirectangular for 360 view? Default is Half-Equirectangular, which is from 180 deg only.

[SamuelUlep]

Could you provide more information about the issue? What is your input? Have you changed to projection ctrl+shift+p to Equirectangular for 360 view? Default is Half-Equirectangular, which is from 180 deg only.

I'm using the Equirectangular video projection (with all other settings at their default installation values). The issue is that horizontal movement (yaw) appears capped: it starts at 0 degrees and allows rotation up to 180 degrees left or right, then prevents further movement beyond that limit. Same thing with pitch.

[kasper93]

Pitch is limited +-90 deg, same as youtube, to make it not confusing when you are in upside down view. Yaw is not limited, but if you are using mouse control, it effectively will limit itself to your screen border. You are moving your mouse pointer and the script follows this movement. But unlike, say a video game would reset your mouse position to center all the time, this is not the case here, because we don't have a way to control that from lua. Technically it would be possible with luajit and c ffi, may add it one day.

Another solution would be to change mouse control mode to drag mode, such that you would drag the video, but I preferred free form movement.

[SamuelUlep]

Is there an option in the settings that I can enable to allow drag mode?

[kasper93]

No.

[SamuelUlep]

Can I request for such feature to be implemented then?

[kasper93]

Yes, consider this issue as an request.