[STICKY] Google Cardboard, VR, 3D Videos, Half SBS Side-by-side playback of 2D, etc
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google cardboard 3d sbs aspect ratio changes.
Hi,
I've noticed when watching a 1920 x 1080 SBS 3D video with 16:9 aspect ratio that when viewed through Google Cardboard the 3D effect is surprisingly good but the aspect ratio looks more like 4:3
Is there a setting I am missing that affects this somehow? I use MX for 3D films and VR Player for VR videos. This aspect ratio also changes in VR Player also.
Thank you for helping.
Hi,
I've noticed when watching a 1920 x 1080 SBS 3D video with 16:9 aspect ratio that when viewed through Google Cardboard the 3D effect is surprisingly good but the aspect ratio looks more like 4:3
Is there a setting I am missing that affects this somehow? I use MX for 3D films and VR Player for VR videos. This aspect ratio also changes in VR Player also.
Thank you for helping.
Very late answer (but I just arrived and I have to start somewhere...first post on XDA
): I think he means panoramic videos in equirectangular format, which is the most used format to show videos where you can look all around.I would really like them to be called 4π movies, which would make more sense mathematically speaking, but guess what? I doubt the term with gain much popularity... :laugh:
And congratulations to the MX developer: glorious app!
This would be KILLER!! I would pay premium $$ for such feature!! Theres a certain app in the app store that does this but cant play DTS audio and is buggy.
I would very much prefer to give my money to the mx player devs, no offense to the ones working on the other one..
No way as of now. May be in future when VR support is implemented
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As far as watching 3D on both phone and TV I think, THINK that it cant be done as cardboard is 3D SBS and TVs are stereoscopic. You also may run into DRM issues. If you own DRM free content you might be better off using a 3rd party app and formatting the movies in the appropriate format (stereoscopic or 3D SBS) then saving your stereoscopic movies to a small usb drive and your 3D SBS to your phone. Keep the USB drive plugged into your bdplayer. Vomiting out useless information anything built on the unity3d platform for a player has the smoothness and quality hands down without heating issues. VAR'S is built on unity3d for its engine, uses EasyMovieTexture for the OpenGL Surface Texture rendering and VLC as the background player. Im sure there are chromecast plugins available for vlc and the basic chromecast support library is available on github a willing programmer on this site might be willing to mod the software if someone wants to be nice to one. There are also VR updates for exoplayer which is the native player for android. There might be a way for a rom developer to include the vr updates in a base rom build of the player along with the standard chromecast support library.... may even be the smoothest solution. I would imagine this setup to be the solutiom with Android N devices and Daydream without actually looking at it. Again DRM is the issue with a lot of the 3D sbs content. As widevine is typically initiated as an application use level setting and not device wide. These are options available to the software developer. I did see a blurb that forcing drm to 3 in unity3d will allow playing the affore mentioned protected content outside its native app. There are also decoders however that sometimes run inside the player that is unique to the player. Castlabs dash player is a good example of this, provider to Vudu for example uses the feature. Outside of that I would wait for Google Play Movies VR updates or whatever app you are currently using. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes in VR video rendering and a lot of the software providers need to play catchup and have staff brush up on vr then release a perfect player as the consumers will expect. You can see alot of vr support in the works with various players behind the scenes as the support libraries are appearing in the apps.
Any Update?
Hey its been like a really long time now, any chances of seeing that update in the near future?
Hey its been like a really long time now, any chances of seeing that update in the near future?
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8Google Cardboard, VR, 3D Videos, Half SBS Side-by-side playback of 2D, etc
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Some quick FAQs:
Is the developer aware of this feature request?
Yes. The request is also added to the Feature requests Page under High priority.
Is there a timeline for implementation?
The developer has not indicated publicly such a timeline. The feature will be considered for MX Player 2.0.
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Previous threads on this feature request (now locked):
http://xdaforums.com/apps/mx-player/mx-player-vr-cinema-mode-t2888329
http://xdaforums.com/apps/mx-player/half-sbs-playback-2d-videos-t2799322
http://xdaforums.com/apps/mx-player/feature-request-3d-anamorph-t2797118
http://xdaforums.com/apps/mx-player/zoom-l-r-independantly-videos-google-t28600982Snippets of requests in previous threads
Here are some selected snippets of the requests made in previous threads.
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i mean, i want player to work as 3D TV. samsung, lg, etc.
when i download 3d mkv to watch it on tv, it can be 2 types of files - horizontal anamorph pair.
and vertical pair
so, hardware 3d TV asked "what pair did you download? vertical or horizontal"
and makes output like this
left_eye_frame1, (left eye on 3d glasses opened, right eye closed)
right_eye_frame1, (left eye on 3d glasses closed, right eye opened)
left_eye_frame2, (left eye on 3d glasses opened, right eye closed)
right_eye_frame2, (left eye on 3d glasses closed, right eye opened)
left_eye_frame3, (left eye on 3d glasses opened, right eye closed)
right_eye_frame3, (left eye on 3d glasses closed, right eye opened)
SO, with google cardboard device (and another same devices) user can watch 3D ONLY with horizontal pair. But vertical seems to be more popular format. And all what i talking about, i ask to do feature - vertical --> horizontal conversion, to watch vertical pair 3d movie in 3d devices like google cardboard.
i hope, i talking understandably.
sorry fo my english, i'm from russia.
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1I'm backing up the feature request. Shouldn't be very difficult to implement (with subtitle support). Thanks in advance, dear dev
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