Play INSV files in your browser
The 360° video an Insta360 camera records, both fisheye lenses in one file or a file each. Watch one right here and look all around it, without Insta360 Studio. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your 360° video plays as a sphere you look around in, stitched or put together as it plays.
- Drag to look around • Pinch or scroll to zoom
- Play and pause • Drag the timeline • Step frame by frame
- Flat video • The picture as the camera keeps it
- Export • Save the view as PNG or the frame as a 360° photo
About INSV
Insta360's 360° cameras, like the ONE X, X3 and X4, record INSV files: MP4 videos of what each of their two fisheye lenses sees, before any stitching. The camera's own app or Insta360 Studio turns them into a flat 360° video, which is why an INSV played as it is shows two circles.
Older cameras put both circles side by side in one picture. Newer ones keep each lens in a file of its own, VID_date_time_00_001.insv and the same name with _10_, which go together. After the video, a trailer holds the camera's model, settings and its lens calibration: where each circle sits and how each lens is turned.
Filepeek reads that calibration and stitches the two lenses on your graphics card as the video plays, so you can drag to look all around it, pinch or scroll to zoom, and switch to the flat video. Drop both files of a pair together and they play as one. Export saves the view as a PNG, the frame on show as a 360° photo, and the video as it came.
Insta360 video
.insv
Format
- MIME type
- video/mp4
- Made by
- Insta360
- Released
- 2017
Inside the file
- Container
- MP4, one per lens or both in one
- Video
- H.264 or HEVC, two fisheye circles
- Calibration
- In Insta360's trailer after the video
- Lenses
- About 200° each, back to back
Opens in every browser
Filepeek plays an INSV and stitches it into a sphere in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, HEVC where the browser decodes it. On their own, browsers play an INSV only as two circles, if at all.
- YouChromePlays through Filepeek
- YouEdgePlays through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxPlays through Filepeek
- YouSafariPlays through Filepeek
Apps that open INSV
- WindowsInsta360 Studio • VLC plays the circles
- MacInsta360 Studio • VLC plays the circles
- iPhone and iPadInsta360 app
- AndroidInsta360 app
Questions
How do I watch an INSV file?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek an INSV. It plays stitched into a sphere: drag to look around, pinch or scroll to zoom, and Flat video shows the two circles as they're stored.
Why do I have two INSV files for one video?
Newer Insta360 cameras keep each lens in a file of its own, one named _00_ and one _10_. Drop both together and Filepeek plays them as one sphere. Either one alone only holds half of it.
Can I save a frame as a 360° photo?
Yes. Pause where you want and choose Save frame as 360° photo in Export. It saves an equirectangular JPEG that says it's a 360° photo, so Google Photos, Facebook and other viewers look around it too.
Does it apply Insta360's stabilization?
No. Filepeek stitches the lenses with the camera's calibration but doesn't steady the picture as Insta360 Studio's FlowState does, so the horizon moves as the camera did.