3DTV Support - Play "3D" Movies in XBMC plus have GUI / OSD and subtitles just work?

I "acquired" a 1080p half side-by-side mkv copy of How to Train Your Dragon and it plays great in XBMC with my Samsung 3DTV.

SoWErA Wrote:hope it works with 10.0 because getting my 3dtv tomorrow and I would hate to have to use a secondary video player for 3d movies.

If you want 3d Support then you need to buy 2 of the developers a 3d tv and at least a set of glasses.

Honestly, they need gear thrown at them to get stuff added faster, they unfortunately dont get paid to write XBMC and dont have a budget to buy things for development.

If anyone wants 3d support fast, they need to ask where to have 3d tv's and equipment shipped to and get out their credit cards.

That said, short of someone giving equipment, I think we will see 3d support in XBMC in about 3 years.

poofyhairguy Wrote:I recently played the best full SBS file I have found. Results:

The good news is that it works with the newest Windows build, so no more DS player. More good news is playing a full SBS file with the GT430 knocks my TV into 3D mode. Its like the GPU knows to send the correct "its 3D" signal to my TV. So one day this could be easy - its not like that mode is locked in DRM hell.

The bad news is once in 3D you can't switch to SBS (on my TV at least) so to use full 1080p 3D that way the player must play the actual SSIF files. I am guessing it will take FFMPEG support for that.

More bad news was it did kinda lag. I am gonna try soon in Linux to see if the file actually plays at that res on that build.

My panasonic Viera gt25 offers 5 different 3d formats selectable by remote, including sbs. As far as the team getting equipment, im sure if some of you guys donated a few bucks it wouldn't be difficult to get them set up for some quality r&d. No bucks=no Buck. Rogers

robinsj Wrote:Could you please explain what exactly you mean by it works? Were you just playing a m2ts file ripped from a 3d blu ray, inside the latest windows build of xbmc? and it played?

What I meant was that when I played a full SBS file the Nvidia driver "knew" it was a 3D file and went into 3D mode.

timgray Wrote:That said, short of someone giving equipment, I think we will see 3d support in XBMC in about 3 years.

Half SBS files work pretty much perfectly right now. That quality level is basically what Direct TV delivers, so it is obviously up to market standards.

I see boxee have now added this feature

Anastrophe Wrote:I see boxee have now added this feature

The main thing Boxee has done has made it so the GUI and subtitles are 3D when you are viewing SBS and TnB materials, presumably at half sizes. Pretty cool stuff. 3D compatible menus is really all XBMC is missing.

Also the Nvidia driver added 3D support:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=143514

poofyhairguy Wrote:The main thing Boxee has done has made it so the GUI and subtitles are 3D when you are viewing SBS and TnB materials, presumably at half sizes. Pretty cool stuff. 3D compatible menus is really all XBMC is missing.

Also the Nvidia driver added 3D support:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=143514

And since they have provided source code (thanks boxee) it might make it into xbmc also. (Just wanted to be positive with all negative talks in the boxee thread)

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10331

Is it possible?