The S3D Video player is designed for displaying 3D video and 3D
photos with active shutter glasses. With it you can set up your computer for
3D show with the maximum quality. The program is free.
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 synchronisation of sound with image and there is no
support for some audio packaging formats. It is quite difficult
to make a good 3D player immediately. Gradually we will finish 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.
Parameters
• Graphics engine: OpenGL
• Video handler: FFmpeg
• OS: Win10.. Win11 64 bit
• Display Frame Rate: 60Hz.. 255Hz
• Display method: switching side
• Format: vertical / horizontal stereo pair
• Type of 3D glasses: active shutter glasses
• Synchronization: USB cable, Bluetooth LE
• Compatibility:
S3D GlassesS3D 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: Mono/3D
Choice between Stereo and Normal mode.
Button: Format
3D video files have many different methods
of image packaging. First select Normal,
see how the frames are arranged,
then switch to the option you want.
Button: File
To show video or single image.
Select single picture file or video file.
Button: Folder
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 formats
It is common to use a single file with two images.
For the left eye and the right eye. But there exist differences.
The authors package the pictures for
different viewing methods
on different equipment. The player can show any format.
To make it automatically recognition what kind of packaging is used,
add a 3-letter ending code to the picture name.
This code should be placed before the final dot of the file name.
• The parallel case example: file-name-3dp.jpg
Here: 3d - stereo image, p - parallel
• The cross eye case example: file-name-3dx.jpg
Here: 3d - stereo image, x - cross eye
If you open a directory with many different images
using the Folder button, the embedded filter
will select and show only images labelled 3dp or 3dx.
Using the File button, you can open any image.
Video formats
Video can be packaged in more diverse methods.
1. Vertical Normal
Two stereo frames together, L and R are side by side, parallel.
They are not geometrically compressed. For this case use
format: Vertical Normal. Correspondingly add 3 letters
of the code to the file name: vnl or vnr.
Where l - show the left picture on the left.
Or r - show the right picture on the left.
Example: video-file-name-vnl.mp4
Here: v - vertical, n - normal, l - left side first
2. Vertical Compressed
Two stereo frames together, L and R are side by side, parallel.
Geometrically compressed horizontally.
To get a normal image need to stretch it.
Therefore, the horizontal (resolution) quality will be 2 times worse.
For this case use format: Vertical Compressed.
Correspondingly add 3 letters of the code to the
file name: vcl or vcr.
Where l - show the left picture on the left.
Or r - show the right picture on the left.
3. Horizontal Compressed
Two stereo frames together, L and R are one on top of the
other, horizontally. 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 format: Horizontal Compressed.
Correspondingly add 3 letters of the code to the
file name: hcl or hcr.
Where l - show the top picture on the left.
Or r - show the bottom picture on the left.
4. Horizontal Normal
Two stereo frames together, L and R are one on top of the
other, horizontally. They are not geometrically compressed.
For this case use format: Horizontal Normal.
Correspondingly add 3 letters of the code to the
file name: hnl or hnr.
Where l - show the top picture on the left.
Or r - show the bottom picture on the left.
From the Format menu, you can select the desired item manually.
How to attach equipment
Detailed description by model. Select the option you need.
1. Download the zip archive with the player files
2. Download 3D emitter driver
3. Check the files with any suitable antivirus
4. Unzip the player to a convenient location
5. Install 3D emitter driver
6. Update your graphic card driver
7. Update the glasses and emitter firmware
8. In the video card driver, enable vertical synchronization option
9. Download our 3D demo video
10. Download our 3D demo pictures pack
11. Run the playback and adjust the glasses
To make the player execute commands, close the glasses setup window.
It intercepts the control and does not give it to the player. We will fix this later.
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
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.