HQFS DVDs are High-Quality-Field-Sequential and is interlaced horizontally. Don't confuse frame-sequential with field-sequential and don't confuse interlaced with interleaved. For starters, let's just go with interlaced 3d like from standard field-sequential DVDs. My experience has taught me that sometimes the card/OS matters as to how well the thing works with regards to frame-sequential but that's the most complicated setup so I'll save it for later. My current test system was win98se with a geforce FX 5200 or GeForce 4 but I've also done some testing on an XP system with a GF-7800-GTX and things work there too except for some differences. If you just want frame-sequential (standard shutterglass), you might be in for many hours of effort so consider yourself warned. So, if you have a setup that can handle the first 3 modes, this should be OK for you. The 3d modes I'm going to cover are interlaced, left/right, over/under, and frame-sequential although that is the hardest to get working. On the other hand, if you want multiple computers to be able to play 3d videos for free, this may be acceptable. I consider these things as two halves of the same program since they're so closely connected.īefore we go any further, let me say that Stereoscopic Player is a much better program for playback so my advice is to just pay for that and have no/few problems. These programs work on Linux and Windows and maybe Mac but I'm not really sure about that. Although there are graphical front ends for these things, I'll be posting about the command line options that you can use for 3d videos.
Mplayer and Mencoder are command-line programs so if you're not into that, you can stop here. Actually I'm just going to start with playing and maybe never get to encoding but maybe someone else will post about that.
#Mplayer command line options how to
the day I start a thread about how to use mplayer / mencoder for 3d video playing/encoding/converting. Well I thought this day would come sooner or later and here it is.