Anyone know a free or paid valid alternative?

[X4 (ADAM)]

Since with the last update seems clear that the devs are not interested in making this player capable of playing 7K or higher quality videos again... anyone know a free or paid valid alternative?

Note that, for me, Gizmo VR is NOT a valid alternative. Too many missing functions (no pitch rotation... to say one) and the forced thumbnail gallery view is really not functional to find a specific video.

[boboweb]

You are right - it seems the devs dont give a sh*t anymore to make this player at least as good as the older versions ... very sad but true ... They will loose a lot of users but they dont know it yet ... Anyway - you can try SkyBox and HereSphere .

[X4 (ADAM)]

Originally posted by boboweb:

You are right - it seems the devs dont give a sh*t anymore to make this player at least as good as the older versions ... very sad but true ... They will loose a lot of users but they dont know it yet ... Anyway - you can try SkyBox and HereSphere .

I tried both your suggested players (had just a quick look at them) and, for now, i think that HereSphere is the most promising one... but... sad to say... the old versions of DeoVR are still better than both.

Anyway, thanks for your reply. At least it's something enjoiable... ;)

[76561199129841526]

Download the latest k-light codec, let it reset your codec settings in the utility, sounds like you have the wrong settings or are missing something or you need to change the settings switch in the player for certain types of videos to direct show or if it auto selected direct show from previous play, it might need it switched off this time as the upgrade fixed former issues with h265 and h264 compression footages. I have such vids that the saved preference no longer worked and needed switched back to off and it corrected the missing fps problem.
If you see a vid that garbles into mosaic compression, then choose direct show and it should play normal speed.
Gizmo crashes on me, it's unusable and never updated or fixed.

[X4 (ADAM)]

Originally posted by Consumer Advocate:

Download the latest k-light codec, let it reset your codec settings in the utility, sounds like you have the wrong settings or are missing something or you need to change the settings switch in the player for certain types of videos to direct show or if it auto selected direct show from previous play, it might need it switched off this time as the upgrade fixed former issues with h265 and h264 compression footages. I have such vids that the saved preference no longer worked and needed switched back to off and it corrected the missing fps problem.
If you see a vid that garbles into mosaic compression, then choose direct show and it should play normal speed.
Gizmo crashes on me, it's unusable and never updated or fixed.

It's not a codecs problem. I haven't installed any codec since the middle of the DivX era (VLC Player is the way) and yet the previous versions of DeoVR worked perfectly.

Pro tip to everyone: Do not use any codecs packs if you don't know very well what you are doing and you are sure that you really need it. Otherwise you risk to do a very big mess.

[boboweb]

Originally posted by Consumer Advocate:

Download the latest k-light codec, let it reset your codec settings in the utility, sounds like you have the wrong settings or are missing something or you need to change the settings switch in the player for certain types of videos to direct show or if it auto selected direct show from previous play, it might need it switched off this time as the upgrade fixed former issues with h265 and h264 compression footages. I have such vids that the saved preference no longer worked and needed switched back to off and it corrected the missing fps problem.
If you see a vid that garbles into mosaic compression, then choose direct show and it should play normal speed.
Gizmo crashes on me, it's unusable and never updated or fixed.

Unfortunately the problem with the latest v.9xx of DeoVR is not into k-light codecs . I tried already to reinstall the newest version same as Windows HEVC codec but this didnt help.
DeoVR v9.03 play 8K vids with 25-35 fps that v8.55 plays over 90fps on the same PC .
I have both version installed so i can tell you this for 100% sure ! ;)

[X4 (ADAM)]

Originally posted by boboweb:

You are right - it seems the devs dont give a sh*t anymore to make this player at least as good as the older versions ... very sad but true ... They will loose a lot of users but they dont know it yet ... Anyway - you can try SkyBox and HereSphere .

After a better look, i think that HereSphere is really awesome! Many thanks for your suggestion! ;)

[76561199129841526]

Originally posted by X4 (ADAM):

Originally posted by boboweb:

You are right - it seems the devs dont give a sh*t anymore to make this player at least as good as the older versions ... very sad but true ... They will loose a lot of users but they dont know it yet ... Anyway - you can try SkyBox and HereSphere .

After a better look, i think that HereSphere is really awesome! Many thanks for your suggestion! ;)

ON My G2 headset HereSphere crashes on Youtube and it's the default site on it's web url header with no way of removing it before the total crash. Their discussion board doesn't allow me to post in their discussion that this issue is needing a blank url header on it's browser, so could you do us all a favor and report that glitch? Thanks!

[76561199129841526]

Originally posted by X4 (ADAM):

Originally posted by boboweb:

You are right - it seems the devs dont give a sh*t anymore to make this player at least as good as the older versions ... very sad but true ... They will loose a lot of users but they dont know it yet ... Anyway - you can try SkyBox and HereSphere .

I tried both your suggested players (had just a quick look at them) and, for now, i think that HereSphere is the most promising one... but... sad to say... the old versions of DeoVR are still better than both.

Anyway, thanks for your reply. At least it's something enjoiable... ;)

At least you can use it for Photos, it's the only VR Photo viewer that ever works, that's why I love DeoVR.

[X4 (ADAM)]

Originally posted by Consumer Advocate:

ON My G2 headset HereSphere crashes on Youtube and it's the default site on it's web url header with no way of removing it before the total crash. Their discussion board doesn't allow me to post in their discussion that this issue is needing a blank url header on it's browser, so could you do us all a favor and report that glitch? Thanks!

Done! ;)

Edit: HereSphere devs are asking if you get some specific error message when it crashes.

[76561199129841526]

Thanks, no error message just the ole full blue sky screen after the dizzying spin *L*
Youtube crashes like that on Firefox browser as well so it might be the web xr or web vr standard they use.

[groundzeroday]

see the other thread about earlier versions of deovr (get it with depotdownloader), and get 8.55 installed and make sure to go into offline mode before running it, resolves most issues

[X4 (ADAM)]

Originally posted by Consumer Advocate:

Thanks, no error message just the ole full blue sky screen after the dizzying spin *L*
Youtube crashes like that on Firefox browser as well so it might be the web xr or web vr standard they use.

The HS dev replied. I think it's more easy if i give you the link to the HS discussion:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1234730/discussions/0/5879990700804307783/?tscn=1621782549

[76561199129841526]

Originally posted by X4 (ADAM):

Originally posted by Consumer Advocate:

Thanks, no error message just the ole full blue sky screen after the dizzying spin *L*
Youtube crashes like that on Firefox browser as well so it might be the web xr or web vr standard they use.

The HS dev replied. I think it's more easy if i give you the link to the HS discussion:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1234730/discussions/0/5879990700804307783/?tscn=1621782549

Thanks, good to know.
I have the RTX3070, works grt with OpenXR but not WebVR
Something I noticed that might help you and others:
if url browsing in any player you run into streaming issues with interruptions (that throbber, loading circle icon from hell) then try Windows Edge browser to view those sites, as when there is slow speeds (like day time traffic hours tethering phone data) the stream will be smoother and just pause the screen, instead of interrupt every few seconds with the loading icon.