Watching/downloading VR (SBS) videos?

TorTorden_VR

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Bigscreen should support this in any full screen application.
Like YouTube videos or any movie player of your choice.

It does turn out to be a bit of an issue with my screens native 21:9 aspect ratio and the resulting images doesn't overlap right.
But dropping down to a 16:9 ratio should solve it.
 

NeilF

NeilF
TorTorden said:
Bigscreen should support this in any full screen application.
Like YouTube videos or any movie player of your choice.

It does turn out to be a bit of an issue with my screens native 21:9 aspect ratio and the resulting images doesn't overlap right.
But dropping down to a 16:9 ratio should solve it.
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Thanks...

My monitor is 16:10... If I have to change my resolution to 16:9 just to watch a video that sounds a bit of a faff?

There's obviously various dedicated video players for the Oculus so just using those to watch the video directly (or downloaded) from places like youtube sounds more straight forward?
 

TorTorden_VR

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I have so far not seen a native "VR video player" even remotely close to as capable as bigscreen or a virtual desktop and your normal player.

Besides your desktop resolution barely matter when in vr anyways.

Most likely 16:10 will be fine.
It's a much larger difference with 21:9.
 
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NeilF

NeilF
TorTorden said:
I have so far not seen a native "VR video player" even remotely close to as capable as bigscreen or a virtual desktop and your normal player.

Besides your desktop resolution barely matter when in vr anyways.

Most likely 16:10 will be fine.
It's a much larger difference with 21:9.
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Ok... I'll download "Bigscreen" and give it a go...
 

Chromezero

Chromezero
TorTorden said:
I have so far not seen a native "VR video player" even remotely close to as capable as bigscreen or a virtual desktop and your normal player.
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Whirligig does an OK job and is something you may want to check out. I think Bigscreen has a more polished interface and is easier to work with though.
 
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NeilF

NeilF
Chromezero said:
Ah, yes. I had forgotten about that. I don't believe there's support for streaming of any sort in Whirligig.
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And that's fine... But it takes us back to a good way of downloading the video then... Which is what I'd prefer to do I think.
 

TorTorden_VR

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I have just managed to test this properly in Bigscreen.

Honestly best 3d blueray experience I have had.
And I have a 90" screen with a sony 3d projector to watch movies with, and I still absolutely prefer the 2d version. Even on equipment in $100k+ home enthusiast cinemas I have been in.
But quite arduous mostly getting my hand on something to test with outside of YouTube clips..

I started by ripping the first half of Tron Legacy using makemkv.
Then the resulting mkv needed transcoding to a sbs format.
And this latter program had zero tutorials. Thankfully managed to click my way through to something that worked.

This whole thing took probably about three hours and some 100GB of harddrive space....
Although final file is around 20GB I think..

This is all besides the point really.

But yeah this works.
 
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MrWhippy

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NeilF said:
So in Bigscreen I could see my youtube video playing in a Windows window, just as I'd see it on my monitor... How do I tell it to instead pipe that video through in my heads SBS? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocvuEI0w0g8
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Make sure you are in one of the Cinema/theatre rooms that have a "big screen" in them, you might have to move your simulated desktop window to one side to stop it blocking the main screen, make the video fullscreen on youtube (you have to do this by controlling your simulated desktop window I believe, I couldn't get pointing at the cinema screen to work).

Then just use the little floating control pad, select the customise your screen icon (the middle one that looks like a monitor), in there is the option to turn on SBS (or you can press F6). Once you are up and running you might want to tick the box to hide your simulated monitor, or else just move it way off to one side out the way.

Someone else may have better instructions, I've literally been trying to suss this out myself for the last hour or so!.
 

TorTorden_VR

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NeilF said:
So in Bigscreen I could see my youtube video playing in a Windows window, just as I'd see it on my monitor... How do I tell it to instead pipe that video through in my heads SBS? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocvuEI0w0g8
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has a SBS or Over\Under setting, I belive it can toggle via F6 or the in HMD menu, this then takes fullscreen video and sends one half to one eye, and the other to the other eye.
This effect is by default set to be applied to one of to the fixed large screen, like one of the cinema screens, and not the moveable one.
That is kept in normal 2d and you can simply hide and unhide it as needed.

The only actual issue I have had with it, was the aspect ratio of my screen.
The software part rely on (that isn't theirs to adjust) is assuming a 16:9 ratio.
It is simply solved by dropping my desktop resolution from 3440x1440 to 2560x1440, just tooke a bit to figure this out.
 
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NeilF

NeilF
TorTorden said:
has a SBS or Over\Under setting, I belive it can toggle via F6 or the in HMD menu, this then takes fullscreen video and sends one half to one eye, and the other to the other eye.
This effect is by default set to be applied to one of to the fixed large screen, like one of the cinema screens, and not the moveable one.
That is kept in normal 2d and you can simply hide and unhide it as needed.

The only actual issue I have had with it, was the aspect ratio of my screen.
The software part rely on (that isn't theirs to adjust) is assuming a 16:9 ratio.
It is simply solved by dropping my desktop resolution from 3440x1440 to 2560x1440, just tooke a bit to figure this out.
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I have 16:10...

This all sounds very convoluted instead of a utility just to download the video and then play it in a dedicated player for the Oculus?!
 
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