The S3D Video player is designed for displaying 3D media using active shutter glasses on your computer. It allows you to configure your PC for watching 3D shows with maximum possible quality. If your PC and display are fast enough, image looks better than a 3D IMAX cinema.


The solution does not require expensive equipment and works with many devices. You can use any glasses from the compatible list. Test the player first. If there are no image freezes and jerks, then the computer performance is sufficient and should work fine.

Should add to PC:
S3D Emitter synchroniser
S3D Glasses bluetooth, or
3D IR Shutter glasses, or
DLP Link glasses, starting from just $8 only

We post a preliminary version so that you can try to watch 3D video and check the performance on your hardware. There are still quite a lot of incompletion in the player. There is no perfect synchronisation in video mode. We have not yet supported all possible legacy video packaging formats. It is quite difficult to make a good 3D player immediately. We are gradually improving it. If the application does not start or if you have found any critical bugs, please report them. The application does not require mandatory presence NVIDIA graphic card and is completely standalone.

3D Player Parameters

Graphics engine	OpenGL 4.6
Video handler	FFmpeg 7.0.2
Operation System	Win10.. Win11
Display method	Switching Side
Display Frame Rate	60 Fps.. 255 Fps
Preferred Frame Rate	120 Fps
Picture Formats	SBS-X, SBS-P, L-R
Video Formats	SBS, V/H, Compreseed
Type of 3D glasses	Active Shutter Glasses
Synchronization	USB cable, Bluetooth LE, IR Sync
Compatibility	S3D Glasses S3D Emitter

* NVIDIA 3D Vision driver not required

Controls

Button: Play/Stop

Starts playback or stops playback and closes the file. Like all other players.

Button: Pause/Resume

Temporary pause with image display. Press again to continue..

Button: L/R

Switches the sequence of the Left/Right perspectives output, if stereo picture files are mixed up or grouped incorrectly.

Button: 2D/3D

Choice between Stereo and Normal mode.

Button: Format

3D video files have different methods of image packaging. First select Normal, see how the frames are arranged, then switch to the option you want.

Button: Video

To show video or single image. Select single picture file or video file.

Button: Image

To show multiple pictures or photos. Select the location of the directory with the image files. The slide show will automatically start.

Button: Glasses

Opens the interface of the 3D Glasses Setup.

Image Setup

You can select the size of the player window and application will memorize it. The image will be automatically adjusted to fit the window. If the original size of the picture is larger than the size of the player window, the reduction will not spoil the image. But in most cases, the picture is smaller than the window and it needs to be enlarged. Choose the scaling method you like best.

When switching to 3D mode, adjust the parameters of the picture rendering to compensate for the uneven absorption of different colors in the glasses. Display parameters can be set separately for normal and 3D mode. If the correction is disabled, it will not be applied to the image.

3D Image Formats

A single file is usually used to store two images, one for the left eye and one for the right. Authors often package the images however they want, without following any rules, to suit different viewing methods on various types of equipment. The player can display any format. To allow automatic detection of the packaging type, add an alphabetic ending code to the image filename. This code should be placed before the last dot in the filename. We will not add support for combining X and P formats on the same sheet. This is a complete violation of the standard and goes beyond common sense.

• The parallel case example:
picture-file-name-p.jpg
Here: p - sbs stereo image, parallel
The left frame is placed and shown first.

• The cross eye case example:
picture-file-name-x.jpg
Here: x - sbs stereo image, cross eye
The right frame is placed left and shown first.

• The separate side files:
picture-file-name-l.jpg
picture-file-name-r.jpg
Here: l - left marking, r - right marking
Will be shown as a single 3D picture.

If you open a directory with many different images by Image button and then run slide show, the player selector will show only images files labelled for example: *p.jpg, *x.jpg, *l.jpg + *r.jpg

If the selector finds a stereo pair in separate files: filename-l.jpg + filename-r.jpg, it packs them into a single 3D frame and displays it as one image. If a file is unlabelled, it is shown as normal image.

Using the Image button you can open any picture file and then select stereo mode by menu Format. To disable automatic selection, switch the Format Auto Select checkbox to OFF.

3D Video Formats

Similarly with video files, they can be packaged however they want, without following format conventions. So please tag them as well according to the description below. So the player can start them correctly right away.

1. Side By Side Normal

Two stereo frames placed together, L and R are side by side. They are not geometrically compressed. For this case use option: Side By Side Normal. Correspondingly add 2 letters to the vide file name before dot: ln or rn.
Where l - show the left picture first.
Or r - show the right picture first.
Example: video-file-name ln.mp4
Here: l - SBS, left side first, n - normal (uncompressed)

2. Side By Side Compressed

Two stereo frames packed together, L and R are side by side. But geometrically compressed by horizontally. To get a normal image need to stretch it. Therefore, the horizontal (resolution) quality will be 2 times worse. The player will have to stretch the image and its quality will deteriorate. For this case use option: Side By Side Compressed. Correspondingly add 2 letters to the file name before dot: lc or rc.
Where l - show the first left picture.
Or r - show the first right picture.
Example: video-file-name lc.mp4
Here: l - SBS, left side first, c - horizontally compressed

3. Top Bottom Compressed

Two stereo frames together, L on Top and R on Bottom position. Geometrically compressed vertically. To get a normal image need to stretch it vertically. Therefore, the vertical quality will be 2 times worse. For this case use option: Top Bottom Compressed. Correspondingly add 2 letters to the file name before dot: tc or bc.
Where t - show the top picture first.
Or b - show the bottom picture first.
The c - image is vertically compressed.
Example: video-file-name tc.mp4

4. Top Bottom Normal

Two stereo frames together, L and R are one on top of the other. They are not geometrically compressed. For this case use option: Top Bottom Normal. Correspondingly add 2 letters to the file name: tn or bn.
Where t - show the top picture first.
Or b - show the bottom picture first.
The n - image is vertically was not compressed.
Example: video-file-name bn.mp4

From the Format menu, you can select the desired format manually. Unlabelled files are shown as is as normal video.

Best Display

For the perfect 3D viewing, we recommend use fast gaming displays with pixel response times of 1 to 2 ms. These displays provide a bright image with minimal ghosting. Please refer to the specifications of your display to check this parameter. If the response time exceeds 4 ms, the image quality will suffer significantly. Fast pixel turn-off is also important. If this time is long enough, stereo frames will be optically mixed and you will not see 3D. You can't get around this by glasses adjusting. So, the quality of the display must be technically sufficient.

Best Monitors: 120Hz, 144Hz, 240Hz

How to attach equipment

Detailed description by model. Select the option you need.

Connect S3D Glasses
Connect S3D Emitter
Connect S3D Dongle
Connect NVIDIA 3D Vision Glasses
Connect DLP Link Glasses

How to install

1. Download the zip archive with the player
2. Unzip to a convenient location
3. Check the files with antivirus!
4. Download and install 3D emitter driver
5. Update graphic card OpenGL driver
6. Update the glasses and emitter firmware
7. In the video card driver enable vertical synchronization option
8. Download 3D demo video
9. Download 3D demo pictures
10. Run the playback and adjust the glasses

Possible problems
If the player crashes on startup or you see error messages. This situation in 90% of cases is caused by old OpenGL drivers of your video card. Install the OpenGL Extensions Viewer , it will show you the version of OpenGL supported by your video card and driver. The driver should be updated.

How to make a player faster

If you have a fast new video card but the player doesn't work consistently, you see frame loss or jerky images. Then need to optimise it for performance. Standard settings are made by the card manufacturer to the minimum level so that the user does not have difficulties with the installation of the equipment.

NVIDIA Control Panel -> Display -> Configuring G-Sync
1. Enable for window and full screen mode
2. Select the display to change the parameters
3. Enable settings for the selected display model
3. Set the “maximum performance” mode in the GPU driver
4. NVIDIA Control Panel → 3D Settings Management
“Power Management Mode” → Preferred Maximum Performance Mode
“Multi-thread optimization” → ON
5. AMD Radeon Settings → Performance → Settings → Profile: Performance


NVIDIA Control Panel -> Parameters 3D -> Global parameters

NVIDIA Control Panel -> Parameters 3D -> Configuring PhysX
1. Setting PhysX: CPU


Then, when everything works fast and without visible artefacts, you can change the settings in the direction of complexity and increase the quality of the video picture to your liking.