3D Blu Ray playback?

[Epicgrog]

Hi, so I downloaded Whirligig and I have a few 3D Blu Rays that I ripped with Redfox (AnyDVD) I installed the K-Lite pack and setup the 64 bit decoders to LAV. I can play the movie (Hobbit Smaug) in Whirligig but Im not getting the 3D effect, it looks like its playing in 2D mode. The movie wasnt ripped in SBS or OU its MPEG-4 MVC Video. Anyone know whats going on?

[REPresenh]

I don't think 3D is supported.

[Whirligig]

Hi

The player for 3D only supports over under and side by side I'm afraid. I've not ripped Bluray 3D films so I don't know if you can easily rip them to over under to side by side. If anyone here has any advice about this that would be cool.

All the best

Phil

[joi76]

a quick google, I found DVDfab, that can output bluray to pretty much any format in side by side, over under, separate streams etc...
Would be awesome to be able to stream directly from the player to the glasses though through your program :D
No pressure ;)

[Whirligig]

Interesting. I'll have a look at it. I might well be integrating VLC in the future so maybe there are options for that.

[EmpireEnd]

i rip 3d movies with dvdfab in 100% SBS 2x1920x1080= 3940x2160 and can watch it in 3D in Whirligig :)
for normal BDs, the Passthrough method is the best, dvdfab does not have a passthrough for 3d movies

[cannon_fodder]

Can you please explain that? Usually BD-movies are DRM protected.

[BBBrox]

Are there any easy answer for this yet? I'd like to watch movies in 3D on my Vive.

I think Whirligig does a pretty good job with options (SBS, Overunder, screen size, distance, curve, etc), to make online 3D previews looks good. Force Awkens, Avatar, etc.

I've never been a fan of 3D TV or theatre movies, but watching movies on Vive... why not have 3D?... which actually ends up looking pretty good (not as good as true VR games, but okay).

I don't have a Bluray on my PC, only DVD, and I don't want to start having to rip movies to files on my HD to watch.

Are 3D bluray drives available for PC? And, if so, could I watch 3D movies on my Vive?? From what I've read so far... no. It seems to most common/easiest way is to download pre-ripped 3D torrents. That doesn't seem right at all. I'm not a broke teenager (sorry for the stereotype). I'm willing to pay, don't know where to begin, or if it's even possible at this time.

Netflix and Itunes don't seem to support 3D (at least not in Canada, unless I've missed that option somewhere). Other 3D movie sources online seem to be disc rental services.

3D videos on Youtube can be fun, but I'm hopoing for actual movies to watch.

Anyone?

Thanks for any thoughts, help, suggestions, and experiences.

[Master Pantz]

also wish to play direct from disc without the hassle of ripping

[EuerDickerFreund]

Originally posted by Empireend:

i rip 3d movies with dvdfab in 100% SBS 2x1920x1080= 3940x2160 and can watch it in 3D in Whirligig :)
for normal BDs, the Passthrough method is the best, dvdfab does not have a passthrough for 3d movies

but who wanna watch movies in vr with all these watchable pixels in the vr-headset?! :D

[EuerDickerFreund]

yep - we need directly bluray-decoding from the disk-drive. would pay much more for that feature. and then lets hope the 4K and 8K vr-headsets will come - so we have a much better quality.

[BBBrox]

Agreed that the quality is not great, and I wouldn't want to watch regular movies. But, the 3D via VR headset is actually pretty good and I think (at least for me) would actually make 3D movies enjoyable (3D TV or 3D at the theatre, doesn't do it for me).

4K or 8K headsets (wireless, lightweight too :-) will be great. At this point I don't mind the resolution of the Vive... but then I old and grew up watching VHS on a CRT TV.

[spazzium]

Sorry to bump an old topic, but I recently tried to get an MVC encoded 3d bluray working and there's basically no player out there that supports accelerated decoding of MVC video. MadVR will filter it successfully and frames can reformatted top / bottom, but no combination of players and codecs has provided hardware accelerated playback.

I would love it if you could spend some time on this! I know you're dependent on other libraries for actual decoding, but if there is some built in support you could add, it would be a unique playback feature! As other have stated, half resolution solutions have a noticeable loss in quality.

[Whirligig]

Hi

Unfortunately I don't really have access to the way the video plugins work. I make Whirligig in Unity3D and use a couple of video playback plugins in there. I do however update them as regularly as I can so if they add support in anyway then it will appear in the player.

If anyone else has any advice relating to this issue please let me know.

All the best and Merry Christmas

Phil

[Phoenix]

Is the player support 3D bluray from a disc ?

[Pristine Green]

I would also be interested in 3D MVC Support, Whirligig seems to be a nice player, but I would really benefit from features like full quality 3D MVC support, otherwise there's nothing that sets it apart from other (free) players like SkyBox VR.
The controls on Index controllers are also a bit wierd...