SBS questions

[Binka]

Hi there. I haven't yet got a vive, but intend to soon. My question is regarding SBS-3D content. I've started ripping my 3d blu-rays with DVDFab9, into SBS MP4's for playback in MPC-HC with SVP running for interpolation as well. I've got all that set-up.

Regarding SBS support in VD, does it only support the more standard Half SBS format? What if i used Full SBS rips, which give 1920 per eye. Would F6 still trigger?

Also, should the physical desktop monitor be set to 90hz for optimal playback through the vive? And in general, is there better or worse resolutions to actually virtualise? If i was playing a game through VD, would i benefit from virtualising a 4k screen as opposed to a 1080p screen in terms of perceivable quality?

Thanks in advanced!

[Rowlan]

I answer your question differently: You won't watch movies on the Vive.

The problem is that the resolution of the VR glasses isn't high enough, you have pixellation. The pixellation doesn't matter during gaming, but when you watch a movie it's like you watch it on some old tube tv. Then there's the blurryness of the parts that aren't at the center of your eye. Apart from that the headset becomes heavy over time.

The Vive is for gaming, but not for watching movies. For movies you'd need a higher resolution display. It'll take a few years until that's ready.

[ggodin]

A higher monitor resolution will mean automatic super sampling and will be good for movies/games. It will make text smaller and harder to read though. As for SBS, I support both regular and anamorphic side by side (F6-F7) so it should work.

[Rowlan]

Originally posted by ggodin:

A higher monitor resolution will mean automatic super sampling and will be good for movies/games. It will make text smaller and harder to read though. As for SBS, I support both regular and anamorphic side by side (F6-F7) so it should work.

How do you support that? Is there a manual? I was confused at first and totally thought the software is garbage. I tried watching SBS using the Video menu, but that's obviously only a projection to a sphere or a dome. Then I tried watching SBS in the movie theater mode (about which I had to ask someone first), which you can only access by using Virtual Desktop to display the desktop. I opened a video using a media player, but it showed the video side-by-side, not in 3d. I have absolutely no idea how to use your software.

[ggodin]

Watch your SBS movie in Windows Media player, make it fullscreen, then press F6 or F7.

[Ethario]

ggodin you should make a mini tutorial how to to do SBS. had a bit of trouble finding it myself. But works great once you firgure it out !

[CasmirRadon]

I just had to spend 20 minutes in the forums to find this explanation of how to play 3D movies.

[Plankton]

Originally posted by Chloe:

ggodin you should make a mini tutorial how to to do SBS. had a bit of trouble finding it myself. But works great once you firgure it out !

Seriously this, I refunded your software cause I could not figure out how to get it to work

[tigs]

I tried a few times with multiple players since I got my headset and have had pretty limited success. I was loading up content via the 360 video ui, then wondering why it was all zoomed in. Having to setup fisheye at 85degrees instead of using sphere or dome and playing around with half/full sbs, half dozen settings or so pretty annoying.

so yea, i googled " full sbs on virtual desktop ? " and what do you know, im here, and all i had to do was load up the video like normal then press F6 or F7! You should make a mandatory tutorial, because finding or figuring out something like this (which I imagine every single purchaser will want to try if they knew about it) felt like a lesson in hitting myself in the face with a sand blaster

[pii]

Still can't figure this out and over a year later you still don't have any instructions for your software that I can find. Opening the video in WMP and hitting f6 or f7 does nothing. F7 actually mutes the sound. :(

Heres another qurestion , is there an options menu somewhere? How do you configure this? All I can do is look at my desktop just like it apppears on my monitors only blurrier at this point I can't see why so many people love VD.

[ggodin]

Originally posted by pii:

Still can't figure this out and over a year later you still don't have any instructions for your software that I can find. Opening the video in WMP and hitting f6 or f7 does nothing. F7 actually mutes the sound. :(

Heres another qurestion , is there an options menu somewhere? How do you configure this? All I can do is look at my desktop just like it apppears on my monitors only blurrier at this point I can't see why so many people love VD.

You're probably not using Virtual Desktop but Steam's desktop viewer. The settings window has all the options you need. Check this video here for how to use it:

https://youtu.be/bjE6qXd6Itw

[pii]

Originally posted by ggodin:

Originally posted by pii:

Still can't figure this out and over a year later you still don't have any instructions for your software that I can find. Opening the video in WMP and hitting f6 or f7 does nothing. F7 actually mutes the sound. :(

Heres another qurestion , is there an options menu somewhere? How do you configure this? All I can do is look at my desktop just like it apppears on my monitors only blurrier at this point I can't see why so many people love VD.

You're probably not using Virtual Desktop but Steam's desktop viewer. The settings window has all the options you need. Check this video here for how to use it:

https://youtu.be/bjE6qXd6Itw

Well then tell me how to get to the setting screen and not the Steam Desktop viewer.
When I load VD in VR mode it does not take me to any setting screen so telling me it has all the option I need is really very helpful.
. It may well be Steams veiwer but when I click on "resume" VD it doesw nothing all I can do is exit it or reload it and after reload I'm back at the same spot, no where.

[ggodin]

In the system tray, there's an icon you can double click to open the settings window. When you launch the app that same settings window should appear in the center of your screen.

When you say load VD in VR mode, you mean clicking the Virtual Desktop image in SteamVR? What if you launch it from your apps list like you launch games in Steam, on the desktop, does the settings window appear?

[pii]

Originally posted by ggodin:

In the system tray, there's an icon you can double click to open the settings window. When you launch the app that same settings window should appear in the center of your screen.

When you say load VD in VR mode, you mean clicking the Virtual Desktop image in SteamVR? What if you launch it from your apps list like you launch games in Steam, on the desktop, does the settings window appear?

I first launch it from my steam library after I have SteamVR running. At that point I'm launching straight just like any other game or app. I put on HMD and I see the "next up" Virtual Desktop loading screen in VR (this is a default SteamVR load screen

Once loaded I instantly end up in Steam in some sort of VR mode and I can see a "resume VD" icon, if I select it nothihng really happens. This screen also as 2 buttons at the bottom one says "Steam" the other "Desktop" The desktop is just a noormal desktop

As for the tray hmmmm kind of hard to see that stuff with a HMD on :) and I never see it due to issues above.

[ggodin]

Doesn't look like it is launching at all. What if you launch it from your desktop, in your apps list in Steam like you would normally launch any regular app or game.

Do you meet the minimum requirements?

[pii]

Originally posted by ggodin:

Doesn't look like it is launching at all. What if you launch it from your desktop, in your apps list in Steam like you would normally launch any regular app or game.

Do you meet the minimum requirements?

It does the same and yes I exceed minimum. I have a few games that kind of do the same thing meaning once I launh them they take me to that Steam screen, but after I re launch them from that same scrreen they run.

VD worked the very first time I ran it. I saw the options screen and all but I didn't have time to mess with it, so I closed it thinking I'd check it out later. It never worked after that. :(

I appreciate your help but don't want to lose sight of the point of this thread.
I spent a lot of time trying tio figure out how to open that options screen, thinking I just didn't know the magic key press, a little documentation would have pointed me in the right direction way sooner.

Take care.