1.16.0, madvr and bluray 3D .iso (1 Viewer)

[ThoW1982]

Hi

I have upgraded to 1.16.0 Pre Relase recently and enabled madvr hoping I could play 3D Bluray .iso without a need to use PowerDVD. Although madvr works like it should in 2D, I can't get 3D Bluray .iso to play in 3D - all of them play in 2D via Mediaportal. I have a new 0.69.0 / 0.69.0-2 Nightly (February 14, 2017) LAV filters installed.

I know that with madvr and 0.69.0 / 0.69.0-2 Nightly (February 14, 2017) LAV filters 1.7.10 MPC-HC plays 3D Blurays without any issues. All I did was to rename LAV filters folder in MPC-HC folder (LAV filter included with MPC-HC) to something different and load new LAV filters in MPC-HC as external filters. That's how I got 3D Bluray in MPC-HC working, which makes me think it should now be possible in Mediaportal.

Can you, please, suggest what should I do to play .iso 3D Blurays in Mediaportal 1.16 Pre Relase? Or maybe I'm confused and it's not doable yet?

Thanks.

Update:

There is progress I have disabled Bluray Menu in Mediaportal Configuration and now when I play Bluray 3D .iso I get side by side 3D, not frame packed 3D (all my Blurays are 'frame packed') - I need to activate 3D SBS option on my TV to watch it. Is this by design?

When I play 3D .iso in MPC-HC, it plays frame packed 3D and TV switches on automatically to 3D.

Can someone explain this in short, please?

Update 2:

Right...So I managed to almost solve this. I have AMD 280x with 17.2.1 drivers; 2 displays 1-Acer monitor non 3D 2-Samsung 3D TV working in clone mode, both 1080p60. I use Streamedmp skin with 1.16 Pre Release core.dll overlay fix made by Sebastiii from this thread.

In madvr settings under devices->properties if Acer has '3D format' selected as 'none' I get 3D .iso displayed in side by side on my 3D TV instead of frame packed. Madvr '3D format' for Samsung TV is set as 'auto'

If I set '3D format' in Acer to 'auto' or disable Acer display Mediaportal switches to 1080p24 and plays .iso 3D in frame packed mode. All good. But when playback stops Samsung TV switches to 1080p30, not as it should to 1080p60 and the UI is acting weird (laggy).

I have tried multiple things to solve it including using v289 core.dll with Ares skin and can not solve this.

 

[Sebastiii]

Yep hard to tell
did you try to work with MP refresh rate instead of madVR one ?

 

[joecrow]

If I set '3D format' in Acer to 'auto' or disable Acer display Mediaportal switches to 1080p24 and plays .iso 3D in frame packed mode. All good. But when playback stops Samsung TV switches to 1080p30, not as it should to 1080p60 and the UI is acting weird (laggy).

I have tried multiple things to solve it including using v289 core.dll with Ares skin and can not solve this.

I was seeing a similar thing when I had an AMD GPU installed, in my case it would stay stuck at 23hz rather than returning to my default of 50hz following 3D playback, also same laggy UI. It was not a problem with MPC-HC or with the old AMD Catalyst drivers. If you can revert your GPU drivers back to the Catalyst version that could confirm it is the same thing. I my case I have fixed it by using a Nvidia GPU but the down side of that is that I can no longer play 3D with PowerDVD15 (just does not work with Nvidia), which for the admittidly rare occaision when I would like to play a 3D disk is a shame.
@Sebastiii Recently tested on my HTPC with my AMD RX 460 and can confirm this is still a problem with v289.

 

[ThoW1982]

I did some more madvr tests yesterday, but haven't tried old Catalyst drivers yet.

1. Internal refresh rate tests - sadly using Mediaportal internal refresh rates did not help at all. I set 60hz as default and after playing 2D (24hz) content Mediaportal did not switch back to 60hz and UI was laggy even after playing 2D. Left this disabled as it creates problems with 2D too.

2. Setting 'Force MP refresh rate (for 3D)' in madvr Mediaportal tweaks solves the issue with 3D for me - Mediaportal switches back to 1080p60 after playback of 3D frame packed .iso stops.
But it creates disruption (a new problem ) after start of both 2D and 3D contents -> all playback starts in windowed mode then switches after few seconds to exclusive (full screen) mode. This happens for both D3D11 and D3D9.

I have tried to use settings available in madvr->rendering->exclusive mode settings and disable 'delay switch to exclusive mode by 3 seconds' thinking it could solve the new problem, but this doesn't seem to help, actually it's acting weird because I disable that option, switch Mediaportal on, play some content, see no changes - windowed mode first then fullscreen, close Mediaportal, access madvr settings and 'delay switch to exclusive mode by 3 seconds' is enabled again. Puzzled

 

[Sebastiii]

Ok i can't test now and not sure if i will able too (Nvidia card on my side) but the windowed mode is maybe related to recent change to have a proper OSD and video size when starting 4K video etc. (bug discovered from @GeYe )

About the UI lazzy lol, MP is set to running @24Hz on my side so for me i have adapted my eyes surely lol. In fact i didn't use the option to restore refresh rate lol. But still it seems to be again some timing issue because of C# and C++ releasing instance not done in sync