I'm trying to make an equirectangular image into a video that will play in VLC the same way 360 videos from Insta360 play.

This is an “out there” idea, but I recently viewed equirectangular video in VLC and liked the ability to pan and zoom with the mouse during playback.  I have equirectangular images from my drone, but people don’t readily have 360 image viewers.  I thought if I put an ER image on a 2:1 sequence, the make a one minute video from that, it would play in VLC the same way.  It does not.  I would have been pleasantly surprised if it had.  I figure there is a codec, or metadata markers that identify itself to the player as a 360 video.

Anyway, if anyone has knowledge on the subject, I’d love to know how to make it happen.

Thx