[Beta - Update 2013/08/09] MP3D - Render 3D videos via MediaPortal! (1 Viewer)

[erichzann]

Firstly, thanks for a great plugin.

I have this working well on win 7 64 but have been struggling to get it to work on a machine running win 7 32.

Originally I could activate 3d mode but then when I tried to switch to any output that required post processing I.e. not side by side etc. mediaportal would crash.

In trying to fix this problem I reinstalled the plugin. Now however when I try and activate 3d I get a warning that MP can't play divx50 and mpg audio. I then have to restart MP to reset my codecs.

I will post some logs tomorrow but in the meantime I wondered whether anyone had experience similar.

Thanks

 

[ScRePt]

Sounds like RowInterlaced output format to me. Check with 3dtv.at player and if that does not work either, it's a no-go for you. If it does let me know.
From my experience, your pc resolution MUST be either @ 720p or 1080p. It wont align/display properly with other resolutions.

 

[erichzann]

I was actually trying to set True Anaglyph red-blue when MP crashed.

It works fine using the 3dtv external player.

Also the other strange thing is that now I can't even get MP to the point where the 3D is activiated in order to select the output mode becasue of this codec problem mentioned above. I would be interested to hear if anyone else is having this problem with the codec error message since it only stated when I uninstalled and reinstalled the 3D plugin.

As I mentioned I will try and post some logs tonight.

Edited: I have attached the two logs. The one from the working client and the one where it is throwing up the codec issue. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

 

[erichzann]

Hi ScRePt.

I have added the logs to the previous post. One thing that I noticed was that in the 'not working' log it looks like the MP3D plugin was starting every time I started MP even though I had not selected this option in the config and then when I was trying to start it again it was getting upset.

 

[ScRePt]

Do you have any "Post processing video filters" added manually? The "not working" log seems to add all the 3dtv.at filters available ....

 

[erichzann]

I have made some progress. The short answer to your question was 'no' I did not have any filters enabled. However, when I was trying to troubleshoot the original problem of MP crashing when activating the True Anaglyph red-blue a few days ago, I played around with automatically activating the 3d filters when MP started.

The problem was that although I had removed the automatic activation this had not fed through to the mediaportal.xml where they were still activated. I edited the xml manually and now I can successfully activate the MP3D plugin.

Now however, I have the original problem of MP crashing. One thing I discovered was that I can change the Output to True Anaglyph red-blue but then when I set the input to side-by-side it crashes, or I can set the input to side-by-side but when I set the Output to True Anaglyph red-blue it crashes. Log attached.

 

[PeppeBytes]

Hi to all and thanks for your job, I have a question.
There are any way to render all menus of MediaPortal like movie list and not only mp3d menu?
I ask this because I'm avoid to turn on/off 3d mode on TV, any time I'm browse the movie list in movinpicture for example.
Thanks a lot.
Peppe.

 

[ScRePt]

Sounds like fair request but this plugin was intended to work for movie rendering. It's not safe to keep the stereoscopic viewing turned-on while no video is rendering. How would you turn it off?

Such implementation should be done by MP itself as I've stated before. My implementation is just a hack for overlays during playback.

 

[erichzann]

I ripped a 3D bluray using DVDFab 3D ripper to a side by side MKV. This worked fine and I could activate MP3D with the same machine that was falling over the .avi, so that's great.

I am just trying out the different anaglyph glasses. The Red-Cyan have such a huge contrast between the two colours that I feel as though I can hardly see out of the Red lens and also I find it difficult to see the combined colour image.

I am going to try the green-magenta next and then maybe the color code yellow-blue.

Does anyone have a preferred anaglyph viewing method?

 

[Kotik]

Hello there,

I also got this working and i would like to thank ScRePt for the time he invested into this project.

Regarding the different anaglyph glasses i got red-cyan but i am not happy with the result

Ordered the green-magenta from amazon.co.uk, will try them out and see how it works, if i am not satisfied with them either i will go for yellow-blue (if someone knows from where to get them pls suggest).

EDIT. Apparently you can get the ColorCode 3-D glasses from the manufacturer himself (it seems to be under patent and thats why it is hard to find them somewhere else).
Here is the link.