Compressing and representing multi-view video

A method comprising:

• receiving an encoded bit stream including a plurality of encoded two dimensional tiles selected from a frame of a spherical video;
• decoding a two dimensional representation based on the plurality of encoded two dimensional tiles;
• converting the two dimensional representation to a spherical video frame;
• and
• playing back the spherical video including the spherical video frame, wherein the spherical video frame includes a higher quality tile associated with a portion of the spherical video frame at a view perspective as seen by a viewer as compared to a portion of the spherical video frame at a peripheral view or outside the view perspective during the playback of the spherical video.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer executable program code which, when executed on a computer system, causes the computer system to perform steps comprising:

• determining a tile position in a frame of a spherical video based on a view perspective;
• selecting a first portion of the frame of the spherical video as a first two dimensional tile based on the tile position;
• selecting a plurality of second two dimensional tiles from a second portion of the frame of the spherical video, the second portion of the frame surrounding the first portion of the frame and extending away from the first portion of the frame;
• encoding the first two dimensional tile using a first quality;
• encoding the plurality of second two dimensional tiles using at least one second quality;
• and
• transmitting a packet, as a streaming spherical video, the packet including the encoded first two dimensional tile and the plurality of encoded second two dimensional tiles.