3D Movie Playback Issue

[sus]

When I start a movie in 3D in OU mode one eye is offset a few mm too high which ruins the 3D effect and makes the movie unwatchable. For some reason this only happens when I put the movie in full screen. Am I missing something? Is there an option to adjust offset Left/Right UP/DOWN?

[hyperion]

Does this happen for all SBS videos? For example, does it happen for this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zooh30RXGM

[sus]

No, it only happened with OU video and only in Full Screen viewing. When viewing in a window the effect worked.

[hyperion]

This sounds like your monitor or something with your setup/player is out of wack. It's part of SBS/OU to "just work" without having to move either eye up or down. I'm not sure in your case what's going on. It might help if you take a screenshot of your monitor while in fullscreen, and post that here.

[JEL]

Just a comment on SBS content (for example, on youtube)

Much of it is 'home-made' and often messed up.
I've been testing a few and frankly people need to educate themselves more in how to properly create 3D videos (I do understand it's much easier to go wrong with than 2D, but all the more reason to study this before uploading to youtube)

Sometimes the spacing between left and right image is wrong, so you get cross-eye effect or too much split-eye effect. Sometimes people even get left and right image mixed up during the video, so you get reverse depth in some scenes and correct depth in others. Sometimes they get aspect-ratio mixed up so you get stretched/compressed images. Sometimes it IS the players that project differently, even when the video is correctly made (Some SBS videos are square, and projected by converging top and bottom of the image into a single point (resulting in stretching-effects at the sides), while other SBS videos are fish-eye videos that should be (but aren't always) projected without aspect-distortion (similar to how games are projected so everything looks like you actually see it with your own eyes). I have personally found there is much more to 3D than just 2 images :) (especially when moving from flat-panel display to curved/spherical display like the HMD)

So it's a good thing to find a few test-videos that are known to be correct in their 3D-effect and watch those when checking out 3D video-players for the first time.

I'm not saying that's the case here, but just making a general comment that perhaps is useful to new HMD-users :)