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Make video_sample and other video commands 360° aware

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reviewing the video_sample and other video commands, then examine how the google/spatial-media tool detects and writes 360° metadata. Confirm the expected Python compatibility and test generated images from 360° video. Done means those images retain the metadata needed to be recognized as 360° images without breaking other video workflows.

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Description

This is more of a feature request than a bug and I'll probably be doing a lot of the work for this myself, but I still wanted to create some sort of "ticket" for tracking purposes and upstream feedback.

Issue: Images derived from 360° videos using video_sample are not injected with the metadata needed so they're recognized as 360° images, resulting in bad segments when uploaded

The current solution I'm looking at is integrating https://www.github.com/google/spatial-media to detect if 360° metadata exists in video media and add the metadata to any images created from it. It's also designed to be worked with using Python2.7, but so far I haven't had any issues uses it on 3.7, so this shouldn't be a pain point if and when this tool is updated for Python3.7 compatibility.

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Python
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Merged PRs (30d)
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