Support needed. Poor performance with 360° Video in Firefox Browsers
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:55 pm
Hi everyone,
We're using the Pano2VR 6.1 Pro Version to create an interactive tour. In this tour several 360° videos are embedded.
In Chrome/Edge/Safari on different machines everything runs smooth but as soon as I switch to Firefox, it is a total mess with around 6 fps.
I've tested this on several machines/OSes so it's not a hardware problem (RTX 2080TI/16 Core AMD CPU as the highest machine, 4 year old iMac and other PCs).
Current videos have the following resolution: 4096x2048, 25fps; compressed with h264 to around 6 - 10 mbit.
Tested the export from Adobe Media Encoder as well as Handbrake and several other tools. No video is over 10 seconds long and it isn't a bandwidth problem.
I've also tested this with webm/VP8/VP9 and get the same results. Changing the resolution to half the original size get's about 5 fps more but that isn't enough.
What can be done about this problem?
Also, is there a possibility (I know that multiple alternative files can be linked via the GUI), to tell via script to load a specific video file? E.g. half resolution for mobile/webm for Android, etc. ? This would be very helpful because we need to target a wide array of devices/configurations with this tour and just letting the browser decide isn't that helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Leo Bergmann | LIQUID - Agentur für Gestaltung
We're using the Pano2VR 6.1 Pro Version to create an interactive tour. In this tour several 360° videos are embedded.
In Chrome/Edge/Safari on different machines everything runs smooth but as soon as I switch to Firefox, it is a total mess with around 6 fps.
I've tested this on several machines/OSes so it's not a hardware problem (RTX 2080TI/16 Core AMD CPU as the highest machine, 4 year old iMac and other PCs).
Current videos have the following resolution: 4096x2048, 25fps; compressed with h264 to around 6 - 10 mbit.
Tested the export from Adobe Media Encoder as well as Handbrake and several other tools. No video is over 10 seconds long and it isn't a bandwidth problem.
I've also tested this with webm/VP8/VP9 and get the same results. Changing the resolution to half the original size get's about 5 fps more but that isn't enough.
What can be done about this problem?
Also, is there a possibility (I know that multiple alternative files can be linked via the GUI), to tell via script to load a specific video file? E.g. half resolution for mobile/webm for Android, etc. ? This would be very helpful because we need to target a wide array of devices/configurations with this tour and just letting the browser decide isn't that helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Leo Bergmann | LIQUID - Agentur für Gestaltung