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ffmpeg360 is a tool for converting 360-degree images and videos between various projection schemes including equirectangular, standard cube, offset cube, equi-angular cube (eac), and our proposed MiniView layout. Given any supported input projection schemes, it can also render views using the rectilinear projection.
The master branch contains our code. It needs to be merged with the main FFmpeg repository to compile.
For your convenience, we have merged our code with be502ec6cde004e1fa05643282939bf3a1507922 in the merged-with-ffmpeg branch.
After merging, you need to change the file:
libavfilter/allfilters.c
by adding the following line:
extern AVFilter ff_vf_project;
You also need to make three changes to the file: libavfilter/Makefile:
- add
gl_utils.htoHEADERS - add
gl_utils.otoOBJS - add
OBJS-$(CONFIG_PROJECT_FILTER) += vf_project.o
brew install glfw glew pkg-config yasm
./configure --enable-opengl --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --extra-libs='-framework OpenGL -lglfw -lGLEW -lpng -lm -lz'
make ffmpeg
./configure --enable-opengl --extra-libs='-lGL -lGLU -lGLEW -lglfw -lpng -lm -lz'
make ffmpeg
libavfilter/vf_project.c
libavfilter/gl_utils.h
libavfilter/gl_utils.c
vertex and fragment shader files for various input and output projections:
ffmpeg360_shader/eqdeg.glsl
ffmpeg360_shader/eqdis-ecoef.glsl
ffmpeg360_shader/eqdis.glsl
ffmpeg360_shader/equirectangular-eac.glsl
ffmpeg360_shader/equirectangular.glsl
ffmpeg360_shader/simpleVertex.glsl
ffmpeg360_shader/uneqdeg-ecoef.glsl
ffmpeg360_shader/uneqdeg.glsl
ffmpeg360_shader/vertex.glsl
Both input layout and output layout are specified by the .lt files. The following .lt files are included:
ffmpeg360_layout/baseball.lt
ffmpeg360_layout/cube.lt
ffmpeg360_layout/equirectangular.lt
ffmpeg360_layout/example.lt
ffmpeg360_layout/good.lt
ffmpeg360_layout/good_normal.lt
ffmpeg360_layout/rotated_cube.lt
ffmpeg360_layout/vcube.lt
Each line in the .lt file contains the following information:
{w}:{h}:{x-fov}:{y-fov}:{x-rotation}:{y-rotation}:{z-rotation}:{u}:{v}
Here, w, hare the normalized width and height of this tile on input frame
u, v are the normalized coordinates of the left upper corner of this tile, while the origin is the left upper corner of the whole picture
x-fov, y-fov, x-rotation, y-rotation, and z-rotation are represented in degrees
An example:
0.333333:0.5:90:90:0:0:0:0.333333:0
To create these .lt files, we can first create a human-friendly layout file in the following format:
${tile_width}:${tile_height}:${vertical_fov_degree}:${rotation_by_x}:${rotation_by_y}:${rotation_by_z}:${sampling_method}:${x_on_output}:${y_on_output}
For example, consider the following cube layout:
+--------+--------+--------+
| right | left | top |
| | | |
+--------+--------+--------+
| bottom | front | back |
| | | |
+--------+--------+--------+
The corresponding human-friendly layout file is as follows:
1800:1200
600:600:90:0:90:0:eqdis:0:0
600:600:90:0:270:0:eqdis:600:0
600:600:90:90:0:0:eqdis:1200:0
600:600:90:-90:0:0:eqdis:0:600
600:600:90:0:0:0:eqdis:600:600
600:600:90:0:180:0:eqdis:1200:600
We can then use a tool, normalize.pl to convert the human-friendly layout file to the ffmpeg360-compatible file, e.g.,
$ ./normalize.pl good.lt > good_normal.lt
Layout file for other layouts are also pre-defined:
The layout describing the equirectangular layout is defined in equirectangular.lt
Note that the equirectangular layout is special as it only has one "tile". Here is an example use:
./ffmpeg -loglevel "info" -y -i smallRapeseed.jpg -filter:v "project=512:512:90:90:0:0:0:simpleVertex.glsl:equirectangular.glsl::equirectangular.lt" view.jpg
The layout describing baseball cube layout is defined in baseball.lt
The layout describing standard cube layout is defined in cube.lt
The normalized MiniView layout is dfiend in good_normal.lt
Parameters to the projection filter are passed as follows:
projection={output width}:{output height}:{x-fov}:{y-fov}:{x-rotation}:{y-rotation}:{z-rotation}:{vertex shader}:{fragment shader}:{orientation file}:{layout file}:{start time}:{expand coefficient}
Here, output width and output height are represented in pixels
x-fov, y-fov, x-rotation, y-rotation and z-rotation are represented in degrees.
The legal ranges of x/y/z-rotation are set to {-360, 360}.
vertex shader, fragment shader, orientation file and layout file are file paths
start time indicates where to start loading orinetation time
For example, a sample command can look like the follows:
$ ./ffmpeg -loglevel 'info' -y -i baseball.mp4 -filter:v "project=800:800:90:90:0:180:0:vertex.glsl:eqdis.glsl::baseball.lt:0.0:1.0" baseball-back.mp4
In the options, orientation file and layout file can be omitted. In this case, the orientation will be fixed at the start direction given by x/y/z-rotation and the default layout will be the standard cube layout, which can be find in cube.lt file. expand coefficient is 1.0 by default.
More examples:
$ ./ffmpeg -loglevel 'info' -y -i cube.mp4 -filter:v "project=800:800:90:90:0:180:0:vertex.glsl:eqdis.glsl::cube.lt:0.0:1.0" back.mp4
$ ./ffmpeg -loglevel 'info' -y -i eac.mp4 -filter:v "project=800:800:90:90:0:180:0:vertex.glsl:uneqdeg.glsl::cube.lt:0.0:1.0" back.mp4
The {expand coefficient} parameter in the projection filter parameters is something special. With it set to a value greater than 1, we are encoding more pixels than the FOV. As a result, the new fov is calculated as:
new-fov = atan( tan(old-fov / 2) * ecoef ) * 2
The new fov is bigger than the old fov.
eqdis.glsl, eqdeg.glsl, and uneqdeg.glsl support sampling without expand coefficient.
eqdis-ecoef.glsl and uneqdeg-ecoef.glsl suport default expand coeffient of 1.01.
remap.pl is a perl script that overlays multiple tiles onto one single frame. For example, the project filter only outputs MiniViews but not the final MiniView layout. To overlay all 82 MiniViews that cover the entire sphere, remap.pl calls 82 filters that creates these MiniViews, then uses ffmpeg's overlay filter to place them onto a single frame.
Similarly, the project filter can output equi-angular faces or standard cube faces but not the final EAC cubemap. remap.pl calls six project filter instances, creates these "filtered" frames, and overlay them on the output frame.
Usage:
./remap.pl $option=value
options (default values):
iv: input video
ov: output video (out.mp4)
il: input layout (cube.lt)
ol: output layout
res: output width and height, use like res=1280x1080
ofs: output fragment shader (eqdis.glsl)
ovs: output vertex shader (vertex.glsl)
dflag: debug flag (info)
crf: constant rate factor - 0 is lossless compression
ecoef: the expand ecoefficient
cbr: constant bitrate
For example, to convert equirectangular to cube:
./remap.pl iv=equi.mp4 ov=cube.mp4 res=3000x2000 il=equirectangular.lt ofs=equirectangular.glsl ovs=simpleVertex.glsl ol=cube.lt crf=18 ecoef=1.01
To convert equirectangular to EAC:
./remap.pl iv=equi.mp4 ov=eac.mp4 res=3000x2000 il=equirectangular.lt ofs=equirectangular-eac.glsl ovs=simpleVertex.glsl ol=cube.lt crf=18 ecoef=1.01
To convert equirectangular to MiniView:
./remap.pl iv=equi.mp4 ov=miniview.mp4 res=2240x832 il=equirectangular.lt ofs=equirectangular.glsl ovs=simpleVertex.glsl ol=good_normal.lt crf=18 ecoef=1.01
To convert EAC to cube:
./remap.pl iv=eac.mp4 ov=eac-cube.mp4 res=3000x2000 il=cube.lt ofs=uneqdeg-ecoef.glsl ovs=vertex.glsl ol=cube.lt crf=18 ecoef=1.01
Currently, ffmpeg360 does not support converting arbitrary projection to the equirectangular project. Converting from standard cube to EAC works, but not with non-1.0 input expand coefficient. That is, if cube has non-1.0 expand coefficient, the generated EAC may not be correct.