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 and ASF. Videos can be
coded in several different stereoscopic formats.
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 very low, because most
video codecs don't handle interlaced content well and subsample color
information (reducing color resolution to quarter of original
resolution), which reduces anaglyph quality dramatically.
The solution to above problem is creating just one file and convert it
in real-time to the desired output format. Stereoscopic Player is such
a real-time conversion application. Stereoscopic Player works this way:
You load your stereoscopic movie, tell the player how it is encoded and
finally select the desired viewing method. For your convenience,
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
Information File (*.svi), which also eliminates the need to specify the
input format. In addition, Stereoscopic Player can be controlled by
several command line parameters.
Features:
» Easy-to-use user interface
» Supports Video for Windows (.avi), MPEG-1 (.mpg) and Windows Media (.wmv, .asf) format
» Supports Windows Media Dual Stream files
» Supports separate left/right files
» Digital Rights Management (for stereoscopic Windows Media files only)
» Playback of any other format supported by third party DirectShow decoders
» Windows Media 7.1 and 5.1 multichannel audio decoding
» Windows Media streaming
» 3D-DVD playback 1
» Live playback from capture devices (TV card, DV camcorder, ...)
» Built-in video library stores settings for each movie
» Retrieves data from stereoscopic metadata servers
» Import and export of stereoscopic metafiles
» Command line control
» OLE automation
» Compatible with Windows Media Center IR remote control