Convert 3D videos to 2D format Using Stereoscopic player
A
first glance...
Stereoscopic Player is a versatile 3D movie player. It allows you to
play stereoscopic videos and DVDs (external decoder required) and also
allows you to watch live video from a capture device. Since it is based
on DirectShow, it can handle almost any media format, for example AVI,
MPEG, WMV, ASF and MOV. Videos can be coded in several different
stereoscopic formats. Please see the feature list for supported input and output formats.
... and a few more details
Why is it necessary to use a special software for 3D movie playback? The
reason is that there are a lots of different ways to watch stereoscopic
content as well as different ways to store the content. In the past, it
was necessary to encode a stereoscopic movie for each viewing method,
for example you had to create an anaglyph file, a interlaced file for
use with shutter glasses and a side-by-side for for free-viewing without
glasses. Quality was often low. For example, most video codecs don't
handle interlaced content well or subsample color information (reducing
color resolution to quarter of original resolution), which reduces
anaglyph quality significantly.
The solution to above problem is creating just one file and convert it
in real-time to the desired output format. The Stereoscopic Player is
such a real-time conversion application. Using the player is easy: Load
your stereoscopic movie, tell the player how it is encoded and finally
select the desired output format (called viewing method). For
your convenience, the Stereoscopic Player remembers input settings for
each stereoscopic movie in its integrated video library so that you
don't have to re-do all the configuration steps again and again. For the
most popular 3D-DVDs and 3D video files, Stereoscopic Player can even
retrieve the proper settings from a web server. If you are creating
content yourself, you can ship your video files together with a Stereoscopic Metafile (*.svi), which also eliminates the need to specify the input format.
What about 2D-3D conversion?
Please note that Stereoscopic Player can not convert 2D content
to 3D! There is no real-time conversion algorithm available which works
reasonably well. Computer are not smart enough to understand what's in
the foreground and what's in the background yet. Since Stereoscopic
Player is a high quality product, no inferior conversion algorithms were
incorporated into the player. Stereoscopic Player requires real
stereoscopic movies, containing both left and right view.
More info at http://www.3dtv.at/products/player/index_en.aspx
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