Stereoscopic Player

Stereoscopic Player Overview

► Improved DMX console
► Support for the Oculus Rift HMD
► Quad buffered DirectX support
► Intel stereo driver support
► Side by side and over/under mode for 3D-TVs
► 'Blended' and picture in picture viewing methods

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General system requirements

Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP with Service Pack 3 or Windows Server 2003-2012 1
DirectX 9
Sound card
3D hardware (3D glasses, 3D display, 3D projection system, ...)
Additional requirements for DVD playback

1.5 GHz processor or better
DVD-ROM drive
DVD decoder
Additional requirements for HD playback

Dual core processor for 720p playback
Quad core processor for 1080p playback
Depending on the codec, a faster processor might be required.

A first glance...

Stereoscopic Player is a versatile 3D movie player. It allows you to play stereo­scopic videos and DVDs (external decoder required) and also allows you to watch live video from a capture device. Since it is based on Direct­Show, it can handle almost any media format, for example AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF and MOV. Videos can be coded in several different stereo­scopic formats. Please see the feature list for supported input and output formats.

... and a few more details

Why is it necessary to use a special software for 3D movie playback? The reason is that there are a lots of different ways to watch stereoscopic content as well as different ways to store the content. In the past, it was necessary to encode a stereoscopic movie for each viewing method, for example you had to create an anaglyph file, a interlaced file for use with shutter glasses and a side-by-side for for free-viewing without glasses. Quality was often low. For example, most video codecs don't handle interlaced content well or subsample color information (reducing color resolution to quarter of original resolution), which reduces anaglyph quality significantly.

Stereoscopic Player Screenshot

The solution to above problem is creating just one file and convert it in real-time to the desired output format. The Stereoscopic Player is such a real-time conversion application. Using the player is easy: Load your stereoscopic movie, tell the player how it is encoded and finally select the desired output format (called viewing method). For your convenience, the Stereoscopic Player remembers input settings for each stereoscopic movie in its integrated video library so that you don't have to re-do all the configuration steps again and again. For the most popular 3D-DVDs and 3D video files, Stereoscopic Player can even retrieve the proper settings from a web server. If you are creating content yourself, you can ship your video files together with a Stereoscopic Metafile (*.svi), which also eliminates the need to specify the input format.

For professional use, command line parameters, OLE automation and the Sony 9-pin protocol are available to automate the Stereoscopic Player. Furthermore, it can control external effects via a serial port or DMX512.

What about 2D-3D conversion?

Please note that Stereoscopic Player can not convert 2D content to 3D!  There is no real-time conversion algorithm available which works reasonably well. Computer are not smart enough to understand what's in the foreground and what's in the background yet. Since Stereoscopic Player is a high quality product, no inferior conversion algorithms were incorporated into the player. Stereoscopic Player requires real stereoscopic movies, containing both left and right view.

General features

Easy-to-use user interface
Supports Video for Windows (*.avi), MPEG-1 (*.mpg), MPEG-2 (*.mpg, *.m2ts, *.mts, *.ts), MP4 (*.mp4), 3D Blu-ray files (*.ssif), Windows Media (*.wmv, *.asf), QuickTime (*.mov), Material Exchange Format (*.mxf), Matroska (*.mkv) and Flash (*.flv)
Supports photos in mpo, jpg, jps, tif, gif, png and bmp format
Supports Windows Media Dual Stream files
Supports separate left/right files
Supports MXF files of Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs), including XYZ to RGB color space conversion
Digital Rights Management (for stereoscopic Windows Media files only)
Playback of any other format supported by third party DirectShow decoders
Windows Media 7.1 and 5.1 multichannel audio decoding
Windows Media streaming
3D-DVD playback 1
Live playback from capture devices (TV card, DV camcorder, ...)
Built-in video library stores settings for each movie
Retrieves data from stereoscopic metadata servers
Import and export of stereoscopic metafiles
Command line control
OLE automation
Compatible with Windows Media Center IR remote control
Synchronized control of external effects via DMX512 (compatible with OpenDMX hardware), serial port and execution of programs and scripts.
DXVA2-based GPU-accelerated video decoding
Supported languages

Official languages: English, German
Languages added by users (translations might be incomplete): Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Finnish. Thanks very much to Ignacio Aldazabal, Paupert Francois, Peter Jacobs, Marco Lopes, Daniele Pagliani, Vladimir Simchenko, Masuji Suto, Andrzej Waluk, Dr. Imre Zsolnai-Nagy and Tapio Hellman for doing these translations.
Supported stereo layouts

Monoscopic
Interlaced (Field-Sequential)
Side by Side
Over/Under
Frame-Sequential
Multi-View (Tiled)
2D+Depth
SENSIO® Hi-Fi 3D
SIS Attachment
The above layouts rotated by 90° are also supported. In addition, Stereoscopic Player supports separate files for left and right view and optionally for the soundtrack.

Supported viewing methods

Source
Monoscopic
Blended
Picture in Picture
Dual Screen Output
StereoBright™ 2
NVIDIA 3D Vision
AMD HD3D (requires Windows Vista or better)
Intel Stereo Driver (requires Windows 7 or better)
Quad Buffered DirectX (requires Windows 8 or better)
Quad Buffered OpenGL 3
Sharp 3D Display
3D Enabled DLP-TV
Tridelity SL Series 3D Displays
Tridelity MV Series 3D-Displays
Generic Single-Viewer Displays
Generic Multi-Viewer Displays
Oculus Rift (headtracking is not supported yet)
SIS Attachment 4
Side by Side
Side by Side for 3D-TVs
Over/Under
Over/Under for 3D-TVs
Row Interlaced
Column Interlaced
True Anaglyph Red - Blue
True Anaglyph Red - Green
Gray Anaglyph Red - Cyan
Gray Anaglyph Yellow - Blue
Gray Anaglyph Green - Magenta
Half Color Anaglyph Red - Cyan
Half Color Anaglyph Yellow - Blue
Half Color Anaglyph Green - Magenta
Color Anaglyph Red - Cyan
Color Anaglyph Yellow - Blue
Color Anaglyph Green - Magenta
Optimized Anaglyph Red - Cyan
Optimized Anaglyph Yellow - Blue
Optimized Anaglyph Green - Magenta
Supported DMX interfaces

ENTTEC Open DMX USB
ENTTEC DMX USB Pro
EUROLITE USB-DMX512-PRO