Auto3D plugin for MediaPortal 1.2 - 1.12 (GUI & TV/Beamer) (11 Viewers)

[Marcus Venturi]

@wouter1971: Not clear what the reason for the 3D problem is, maybe my code changes. Will take a few days. concerning the turn off code, the socket seems to block when the TV is off. I will check if I can catch this.

@kiwijunglist : Thank you for the link, I will check if I find Information about the protocols.

 

[kiwijunglist]

great. I can also give you teamviewer access to my htpc if needed for testing (if that helps you). The htpc is always on (at the moment) bc I use it for torrents.

 

[Marcus Venturi]

@wouter1971 : I'm confused. First I thought I have found something, but now the problem disappeard. Are you using your own ruleset for ViewModeSwitcher or the one that comes with MediaPortal?​

 

[wouter1971]

The ones that comes with mp with little modification on 4:3 and zooming content to fullscreen. But the issue is in the black bar detection

 

[Marcus Venturi]

OK, my fault. I was testing with a Full HD SBS movie, where the black bar detection didn't get active. I quickly ripped a blu ray into a short sequence with black bars for testing.

An now I can really (I mean really! ) reproduce it. Has - as you said - to do with the black bar detection. ViewModeSwitch seems calculate the black bars wrong. Maybe the is some interference between my TAB mode correction and ViewModeSwitcher. But this will need some time to check, because I have to understand what ViewModeSwitcher is doing...

 

[kiwijunglist]

my understanding:

the problem would be with viewmode switcher not your plugin. viewmode switch can't handle 3d movies, it will zoom (crop) only the edges, and it wont crop out the center black bar. you need to either turn it off, or the black bar detection in viewmode switcher needs to check for a black bar in the middle of the picture and adjust accordingly.

 

[wouter1971]

my understanding:

the problem would be with viewmode switcher not your plugin. viewmode switch can't handle 3d movies, it will zoom (crop) only the edges, and it wont crop out the center black bar. you need to either turn it off, or the black bar detection in viewmode switcher needs to check for a black bar in the middle of the picture and adjust accordingly.

Not correct, for SBS movies black bar scanning works brilliantly.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Viewmode switcher will work with SBS and OU if (a) it doesn't do anything or (b) it stretches only (ie it doesn't crop/zoom). If it crops/zooms it will mess the picture up. for example with a horziontal zoom, it will crop the left side of the picture from the 'left eye', but in the 'right eye' it will crop the right side of the picture, this leads to a different crop in each of the two images which makes the overlay incorrect.

If it 'works' for a particular side by side movie then it's only stretching the image (or it's just expanding to fit the edges). Try toogle zoom mode within mepo (not with tv), while you are watching a 3d SBS/OU movie, you will see the difference.

 

[wouter1971]

Viewmode switcher will work with SBS and OU if (a) it doesn't do anything or (b) it stretches only (ie it doesn't crop/zoom). If it crops/zooms it will mess the picture up. for example with a horziontal zoom, it will crop the left side of the picture from the 'left eye', but in the 'right eye' it will crop the right side of the picture, this leads to a different crop in each of the two images which makes the overlay incorrect.

Not correct, please check yourself. If the SBS movie is 21:9 within 16:9 image, with black bars it zooms briliantly to 16:9 full screen.
Choosing zoom mode itself does nothing, it's the black bar scanning that makes the zoom to fullscreen possible.
Make sure you have Auto3D installed and viewmodeswitcher with below settings (cut .txt off filename)

 

[kiwijunglist]

Ahhh yes I see, that's would work fine. Because it would be changing both images equally. The actual change in the image is technically a stretch..... If you zoomed, you would be losing asymetric parts of each stereoscopic image.

Come to think of it a SBS can be stretched vertically and an OU can be stretched horizontally. However you'd only stretch an OU horizontally if it was 4:3, which you will never see in 3d ou format.