The Stereoscopic Player application was designed
to be 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 and
ASF. Videos can be coded in several different stereoscopic formats.
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 very low, because
most video codecs don't handle interlaced content well and subsample
color information (reducing color resolution to quarter of original
resolution), which reduces anaglyph quality dramatically.
General system requirements
- DirectX 7 or better graphics card
- DirectX 9 for certain viewing method 2
Sound card
- 3D hardware (3D glasses, 3D display, 3D projection system, ...)
Additional requirements for DVD playback
- 1 GHz processor or better
- DVD-ROM drive
- DVD decoder
Minimum requirements for Dual Stream 576p playback
- 2.5 GHz Pentium 4 or better
Minimum requirements for Dual Stream 720p playback
- Dual core processor
Minimum requirements for Dual Stream 1080p playback
The following specification is valid for dual stream Windows Media 9 files, encoded at 8 Mbps and 1440 x 1080 pixels resolution.
- AMD Athlon X2 4800+ or Intel Pentium D 830 (2 x 3 GHz)
- Dual channel DDR2 667 MHz memory (for Intel systems)
- PCIe graphics card
Here are some key features of "Stereoscopic Player":
General features:
- Easy-to-use user interface
- Supports Video for Windows (.avi), MPEG-1 (.mpg) and Windows Media (.wmv, .asf) format
- Supports Windows Media Dual Stream files
- Supports separate left/right files
- 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
Supported languages:
- Official languages: English, German
-
Languages added by users (translations might be incomplete): Spanish,
French, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, Russian, Japanese,
Polish, Hungarian. Thanks very much to Ignacio Aldazabal, Paupert
Francois, Peter Jacobs, Marco Lopes, Daniele Pagliani, Vladimir
Simchenko, Masuji Suto, Andrzej Waluk and Dr. Imre Zsolnai-Nagy for
doing these translations.
Supported stereo layouts:
- Monoscopic
- Interlaced
- Side By Side
- Over/Under
- SIS Attachment
Supported viewing methods:
- Source
- Monoscopic
- Dual Screen Output
- NVIDIA Stereo Driver
- StereoBright 2
- Quad Buffered OpenGL 3
- Sharp 3D Display
- 3D Enabled DLP-TV
- SIS Attachment 4
- Side By Side
- Over/Under
- Row Interlaced
- Column Interlaced
- True Anaglyph Red - Blue
- True Anaglyph Red - Green
- Gray Anaglyph Red - Cyan
- Gray Anaglyph Yellow - Blue
- Half Color Anaglyph Red - Cyan
- Half Color Anaglyph Yellow - Blue
- Color Anaglyph Red - Cyan
- Color Anaglyph Yellow - Blue
- Optimized Anaglyph Red - Cyan
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