| Author | Message | ||
     Shane Rating: N/A |
I have a set of the wired ELSA glasses and would like to know if I can use them to view the IMAX 3D DVDs on my PC? I have a DVD drive and Nvidia video card as well. Thank you in advance! | ||
| Ross Rainville Rating: N/A |
Review the FAQ's in the Service section of www.i-glasses.com | ||
| reynaldo Rating: N/A |
Yes, you can view 3D DVD's with wired 3-D glasses-- I do so all the time with my X3D Glasses. First, set your PC's display resolution to 640 x 480 DPI (If you have Windows XP, you will have to do this from the Properties Icon of your DVD Player program-- This program, by the way, MUST be PowerDVD, unless your program works. Now, when the DVD plays in 3D mode, activate your 3D glasses, either by hard switch, or by software. | ||
| Shane Rating: N/A |
Ross and Reynaldo: Are you sure those methods will work with Elsa Revelators? | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
The "Power-DVD-Method" is primarily suitable for glasses with line-blanker technology, such as i-Art 4-in-1, VRStandard, i-glasses, AnotherWorld, etc. For the Elsa Revelator you need a driver which puts the VGA-board in interlace mode and triggers the glasses. WINx3D driver from http://www.win3d.com/ can do the trick, but not on nVidia TNT or GeForce series and not under NT/2k/XP. For the Revelator a complex driver and/or 3D-DVD-player software would be required to get it right. Technically the driver would have to create fake interlace by using page-flipping (software-line-blanker). If someone achieves this please say so. Maybe WINx3D already contains such a trick or the developer is working on it. By the way, even if you have the right glasses you have to go to the PowerDVD Configuration and choose Video - Advanced - Force Weave. The latest nVidia drivers also offers resolution 720x480, which should be optimal for NTSC-3D-DVD's. If there ever should be a PAL-3D-DVD use 720x576. I think the results are not as good as on a TV, but at least there is less flicker. Christoph | ||
| M.H. Rating: N/A |
I have completly solved this problem. The solution is a custom DirectShow component coled VideoRenderer witch can be combined with normal DVD decoding engine. I have succesfuly tested direct playback of all 3D DVD on the marke (the non CSS scrambled one, Ultimate G' is CSS scrambled, I do not have licence for CSS descrambling algorithm) by this combination. The output is on the fly conversion of interlaced data to any one of following stereo-format: OpenGl HW page flipping, over/under for sync.doubling, anaglyph (several types), full screen interlaced. Eventual support for WINX3D and nVida Page flipping depends on user interest. Jutst now we use this VideoRenderer as a key component of hi-quality stereo video playback code - DepthQ (see: http:\www.depthq3d.com Software section). Eventual relese of this code in a price acceptable form with resolution limited to PAL/NTSC for DVD playback depends on users interest + marketing strategy witch is under control of Lightspeed Design Company ... | ||
| Christoph Bungert (Admin) Rating: N/A |
Hello Michal, so this software technology isn't available to the public at this time? I think there is a real need for a DVD-software-player which turns interlace into over-under for PC-shutterglasses. The manufacturers of 3D-DVD's should have a very strong interest in this. TV-sets which are compatible with TV-shutterglasses become extinct rapidly. Here in Germany 50/60Hz TV-sets are DEAD!!! Almost all TV-sets sold in the last few years, except for some small ones, have 100Hz digital buffer technology, which screws stereo. Christoph |
