First let me tell you my journey thus far to get my perfect HTPC setup has been tough so I hope this may help others as well as help me figure out the last few bits!
My goal was to have the best PQ/Audio for my DVD, BD, and 3dBD collection when viewing in my theater as well as having the same content available on TV’s and other devices such as iPad, Roku, etc. around the house. All my rips are with MakeMVK including my 3d Blu-ray’s, not interested in compression or conversions…
My Setup is as follows;
I have Stereoscopic player set to view method ‘NVidia 3d’ (Ihave not enabled NVidia 3d on the desktop within the NVidia control panel as Ithink that’s only when using a desktop 3d scenario) and set it to playback at24Hz as all my BD 3d movies are this format and I want the smooth playback of film J
I tested this on my LG passive 3d TV and on the HT Epson projector and right now it feels like its working (looking) better on the TV than the projector. In both cases the picture is displayed as top and bottom and I have to manually tell the TV and the Projector to use this method, then Iget the 3d picture. On the projector I can only select 3D – Top/Bottom – Side by Side or 2D, the TV I think may have one or two other options.
So, what I am trying to learn is what viewing method would be the best (right) one for the projector vs. the TV and ultimately what is the format of the file (MKV rip of MVC3d file) as I want the 1:1 experience as if Ihad put the disk in my player – I think this may be frame-packing, but I have no idea what this is or how that relates to selecting the viewing method?
Is seems like the Stereoscopic player is taking the MVC file and then playing it with whatever viewing method is selected – I just need to know which one is the ‘native’ standard frame-packing option so it works like the actual BD player and the Projector auto senses the 3d signal?
I know many have tried to get a 3d solution working and not many players support MKV MVC right now and there is a lot of confusion, people thinking they are getting full HD 3d and are getting something else like 2d-3d conversion etc.
Also there is a lot of conflicting information, such as the filters/decoders. I have LAV installed as part of the MBT/MPC-HC install and its working great. When you fire up Stereoscopic player it pops up and says it recommends ffdshow to be installed. I read you shouldn’t install multiple codec packs so have skipped that for now… should or shouldn’t I have both??
Please share how you have you HTPC and 3d playback setup and let me know if you have questions on my setup so far!
My goal was to have the best PQ/Audio for my DVD, BD, and 3dBD collection when viewing in my theater as well as having the same content available on TV’s and other devices such as iPad, Roku, etc. around the house. All my rips are with MakeMVK including my 3d Blu-ray’s, not interested in compression or conversions…
My Setup is as follows;
- Windows 7 64bit with MediaBrowser 3 Classic (and theMediaBrowser Server 3 back-end server on its own dedicated machine)
- LAV filters (installed as part of MBT)
- MPC-HC set to the external player for MKV’s
- MadVR set to the high quality settings and set to adjust automatically for 24Hz vs. 60Hz (BD – DVD)
- Stereoscopic Player (new beta with full MKV MVC 3d support)external player for .MK3d files
- Connected via HDMI through receiver to an Epson 5020UB
I have Stereoscopic player set to view method ‘NVidia 3d’ (Ihave not enabled NVidia 3d on the desktop within the NVidia control panel as Ithink that’s only when using a desktop 3d scenario) and set it to playback at24Hz as all my BD 3d movies are this format and I want the smooth playback of film J
I tested this on my LG passive 3d TV and on the HT Epson projector and right now it feels like its working (looking) better on the TV than the projector. In both cases the picture is displayed as top and bottom and I have to manually tell the TV and the Projector to use this method, then Iget the 3d picture. On the projector I can only select 3D – Top/Bottom – Side by Side or 2D, the TV I think may have one or two other options.
So, what I am trying to learn is what viewing method would be the best (right) one for the projector vs. the TV and ultimately what is the format of the file (MKV rip of MVC3d file) as I want the 1:1 experience as if Ihad put the disk in my player – I think this may be frame-packing, but I have no idea what this is or how that relates to selecting the viewing method?
Is seems like the Stereoscopic player is taking the MVC file and then playing it with whatever viewing method is selected – I just need to know which one is the ‘native’ standard frame-packing option so it works like the actual BD player and the Projector auto senses the 3d signal?
I know many have tried to get a 3d solution working and not many players support MKV MVC right now and there is a lot of confusion, people thinking they are getting full HD 3d and are getting something else like 2d-3d conversion etc.
Also there is a lot of conflicting information, such as the filters/decoders. I have LAV installed as part of the MBT/MPC-HC install and its working great. When you fire up Stereoscopic player it pops up and says it recommends ffdshow to be installed. I read you shouldn’t install multiple codec packs so have skipped that for now… should or shouldn’t I have both??
Please share how you have you HTPC and 3d playback setup and let me know if you have questions on my setup so far!