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ashcowan
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11 years ago

Uploading video WITH 360 AUDIO to Samsung Gear VR

Hi there, I have been uploading 360 videos to the 360 Videos folder on the Samsung Gear VR micro SD card for some time now. All these videos have been with stereo sound. I am now ready to upload vi...
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Petroza
Heroic Explorer
10 years ago
The other thread has more info. https://forums.oculus.com/community/discussion/comment/343286/#Comment_343286

To answer specific questions here:
MP4 is not supported because the Android AAC decoder downmixes everything to stereo which prevents us doing ambisonics, this may change in the future.

The recommended format is MKV(H.264 video with Vorbis Audio)

There is no metadata required, if it's a 360 video with 4 channel audio it assumes that is first order ambisonics in the AmbiX (ACN/SN3D) format.