Does anyone have guidelines for the optimal 360 monoscopic video encoding settings for Gear VR? We have an app that uses 360 videos and I've been seeing either incomplete or different information from sources online.
According to Samsung ( https://resources.samsungdevelopers.com/Gear_VR_and_Gear_360/Gear_VR_-_The_Basics ), the video settings should be: Monoscopic: 3480x1920 (2:1) @ 30 fps or 2880x1340 @ 60 fps Stereoscopic: 1920x960 @ 30 fps or 1440x670 @ 60 fps *However, they don't mention other details such as the Codec (profile and level) and Bitrate.
*Also, is there a typo and should the resolutions be 3840 x 1920, and 2680 x1340 (2:1)?
According to PurplePill ( https://purplepill.io/vrencoder/ ), the settings should be:
Codec: h.265/HEVC Max resolution: 3840×2160 Max FPS: 30 Avg. bitrate: 13M
*The resolution given is different that the resolution given by Samsung (3480 x 1920, as opposed to 3840 x 2160)
Samsung VR's Content Specs ( https://samsungvr.com/portal/content/content_specs ) also gives some guidelines, but ultimately they mention that "Our transcoder will convert your video to a use a codec and frame rate that best supports all the devices that are compatible with Samsung VR."
So...what are the settings Samsung's transcoder uses to convert the video?
