SBS too close and BIG

[AlienRenders]

How do you resize the video. I try to play SBS and tries all the options. Half SBS seems to work best on this one video. But it's right in my face. I can see the guy's nostril large as an elephant. Where's the zoom button?

Also, does anyone know how to use other VR players? VLCRiftPlayer just plays on my monitor, not in the headset. Same for other players. I don't understand how this is supposed to work.

[AlienRenders]

Oh, the settings on the main screen are for the desktop. Nice. Ok ok. I got it. Too bad the video player wasn't more powerful. It can't play mkv though it should work with one of the mkv codec packs. It's a big hassle to get working though.

[aremoe]

Yes, I also wonder how one could adjust the video size as there are no settings for this.

[IndianaJonas]

just use the normal vlc player from your desktop while in virtual desktop, works perfectly

[AlienRenders]

Except it really doesn't. The desktop can be put into a curve and that's useful for 3D pictures or videos, but not for VR which has 180 or 360 visuals along with curving vertically. For that, only the player in virtual desktop works "properly", but unfortunately, it won't play mkv and a whole host of other types of files. And when using the VT player, you can't size it. I know it's possible since I've seen it done when I lose tracking.

Now, if a dome option were added and not just the curve, that might work.

[Neep, Crab Champion]

Have you guys tried Whirligig yet? You should look into it, they have a free beta available on their website

[aremoe]

@Neep: I have also got Whirligig. The developer has improved this player lately, but you can also not resize the 3D SBS videos. Besides that the videos don´t play smoothly. High frame rate videos (>60 fps) look more like being played at 30-20 fps.

[.ATOM.]

I use MadVR/MPC and the Shark007 codec pack with under/over on the virtual desktop and that seems to work the best. I wish there was a way to adjust the depth but it's stll pretty good.

[[XGS]DonkyBoY]

Yea I have had a few 180 or 360 MKV files that refused to play, thou for most sites the content is in MP4 for 180 and 360 and is renderd in speherical dome. (Virtual Desktop does play content in Spherical Dome)

Its pretty rare that I find this kind of content in MKV as MP4 seems to play better on mobile devices and lot's more people wouold have been trying VR on thier google cardboard than the expensive clunky headsets.

Look at YouTube for example thier 8K panoramic videos are in MP4
Most of the paid XXX sites thier content is MP4

3D Bluerays seem to be compressed using MKV most often and as others have pointed out to play these you use your own video player that you would normally use such as VLC or GOM the content is captured and displayed on the Virtual Desktop.

If you have a 180 / 360 MKV video you need to play but VD isnot being usefull you could try transcoding the to MP4 this should take secounds and the same quality as the video you started with your not re-rendering it just transcoding it.
Try https://handbrake.fr/ its at the right price and works pretty good.

I am running Win10 pro x64 with no codec packs installed (donot need them) with VLC and GOM player on Oculus Rift and i7 4790K / GTX970 in SLI / 32GB DDR3