Where is the best place to get 3d videos to work with the vr? I have a bunch of 3d blurays but I don't have a player for my computer. What is the best way to convert your videos to play in the vr. I also have a ton of ultraviolet movies I can download, will those play in the vr?
Also can i buy 3d movies from vudu and use them in vr?
Doubtful. Drm will lock most of the movie stores out your only options are ripping your own Blu-ray or. Pirating. At least until the supposed mgo advanced movie service for the gear Vr comes out.
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Looked all over in the play store and online to no avail, at least anything that works good to download the videos from YouTube in high quality 1080p with the audio intact, so I can play them on my Gear VR. Any suggestions on a program or website I might be missing? Thanks.
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Looked all over in the play store and online to no avail, at least anything that works good to download the videos from YouTube in high quality 1080p with the audio intact, so I can play them on my Gear VR. Any suggestions on a program or website I might be missing? Thanks.
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Try YTD Video downloader, it can download youtube videos in highest quality up to 4k (if the source video provides that).
Thanks!
TubeMate has been working for me on Android, I download some 3D content from YouTube then move it into the proper directory on the sdcard and it works good.
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Ok, so in the oculus cinema there are the maze runner and ruin multiscreen trailers, since both of these movies are out and are the only 2 to implement multiscreen technology, is there a way to get the copies of the movies to play multiscreen like that?
Hey guys,
Ok here is the thing, for over 3 years now I have held out on buying an Oculus rift, hoping the next few months the official customer version would be out, but that until now is yet to happen.
So I purchased the Gear VR to finally get to experience VR (since I know it wont affect me in buying the Oculus CV1) and boy am I blown away, but one thing I am dying to experience is how the world of Skyrim with its beautiful nature and giant mountains would look in VR.
Is there any way for me to shoot/screen capture a 360 and/or 3D video of game play in skyrim and view it through the gear VR to have a bit of what that experience would be like?
Thanks all :good:
There is an android app for Google cardboard being worked on to let you stream pc games in vr format to the phone, it's not natively compatible with the gear vr yet, and there is latency issues or course. It shows promise though. Your question made me wonder a follow up questtion: can someone make a pc program that let's you take a 360 photosphere video or at least photo from a game like skyrim? Like fraps, but a photosphere. That would be fantastic.
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There is an android app for Google cardboard being worked on to let you stream pc games in vr format to the phone, it's not natively compatible with the gear vr yet, and there is latency issues or course. It shows promise though. Your question made me wonder a follow up questtion: can someone make a pc program that let's you take a 360 photosphere video or at least photo from a game like skyrim? Like fraps, but a photosphere. That would be fantastic.
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That is exactly what I was asking for
I know about the latency and stuff, and I know about the app you mentioned... I just wanted to be able to experience it much like you would watching a gameplay on youtube... except its a 360 video
I have a few 3d blu-rays that I would love to watch in the Oculus Cinema. My understanding is that most 3d blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format but the Gear VR requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down). Is there any way to convert a frame packed blu-ray to a sbs or td MP4?
Thanks.
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It looks like this software might do it. Anybody have any experience with DVD Fab Blu-ray ripper for 3d?
http://www.dvdfab.cn/blu-ray-ripper.htm
Is this related to my issue?... Cannot play 3D video with top-down format. ... despite placing in appropriate directory, creating text file and changing file name...?
Not sure if this will help you with the top down video.....
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http://phandroid.com/2014/12/19/360-video-gear-vr/
Need to be mp4 with mp3 sound. Mkv are no go yet.
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Need to be mp4 with mp3 sound. Mkv are no go yet.
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No, MKV's work perfect....unless you're talking about something else?
All my rips are ripped straight from blu-ray into an MKV container with the only exception being that the audio is converted to 5.1 AAC (neroacc) from the DTS HD core file @ VBR- Quality 1.0 for best quality and stock video player compatibility. Only the video/audio files are in the MKV container, no subtitles etc etc.
20-30 GB per movie but the bit rate is worth it since you're so close to the actual screen hence the ability to see pixels. Anything under 20mbps bit rate is simply not sufficient enough when it comes to the black levels/darker scenes due to the close proximity. Original file is best for decent quality, and personally I noticed no change in battery life nor performance.
In regards to 3D, everything is the same except I convert to Top/Bottom. DVDfab will do just fine to convert to top/bottom.
To get 3D top/bottom working on the Gear VR, took me awhile to figure this out at first....
1. Connect the Note 4 to the computer.
2. Make a copy of one of the text files from one of the pre-loaded 3D trailers in the "Trailer" 3D folder
3. Rename it to the name of the movie file you want to use
4. Inside the text file, next to "title" rename it to the title of your movie file
5. Inside the text file, next to "format" put "3DTB" instead of "3DLRF"
6. Make sure you place the text file in the same folder as your movie, either in the
3D folder under Movies or Trailers.
(Note: you may or may not have to drag the text file to your desktop to make a copy and change the info. Just drag it back into the folder once done)
Hope this helps :good:
Why do you convert to top/bottom? SBS sould be better for VR since it would be shown as is on the screen.
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I have a few 3d blu-rays that I would love to watch in the Oculus Cinema. My understanding is that most 3d blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format but the Gear VR requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down). Is there any way to convert a frame packed blu-ray to a sbs or td MP4?
Thanks.
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It looks like this software might do it. Anybody have any experience with DVD Fab Blu-ray ripper for 3d?
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There are many other blu-ray ripping programs for ripping 3D Blu-ray to 3D videos which are compatible with Gear VR. I've the pleasure of using EaseFab's Blu-ray Ripper to finish my job. Have a try!
ks-man said:
I have a few 3d blu-rays that I would love to watch in the Oculus Cinema. My understanding is that most 3d blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format but the Gear VR requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down). Is there any way to convert a frame packed blu-ray to a sbs or td MP4?
Thanks.
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It looks like this software might do it. Anybody have any experience with DVD Fab Blu-ray ripper for 3d?
http://www.dvdfab.cn/blu-ray-ripper.htm
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Yes I use dvdfab to rip my 3D blu-rays to full 720p SBS mkvs. Don't get why anyone would use half-sbs 1080p, as that would result in worse quality, yet higher file sizes (you can see more than 960pixel on the horizontal axis, while you will be limited to 720 on the vertical).
EDIT: The resulting MKVs usually end up having audio sync issues on the Note 4, but just remux them with MKVtoolnix afterwards to solve the problem..
play 3D Blu-ray on Gear VR
As far as we know, Gear VR supports most conventional file formats like MP4, AVI, and FLV; however, Blu-ray format is not included. To play 3D Blu-ray with Gear VR, first you need to convert Blu-ray to Gear VR supported file type. And if you stick with 3D movie on Gear VR, you can rip Blu-ray to MP4 in side-by-side or top-to-bottom 3D formats.
To rip 3D Blu-ray movies to 3D 3BS MP4 and make your 3D Blu-ray playable on Gear VR for your own., a professional Blu-ray ripping tool is needed. Here, UFUSoft Blu-ray Ripper is higly recommended. With it you can rip any 3D Blu-ray to 3D SBS MP4 video for Gear VR with fast speed and high video quality.
Watching 3d movies on my gear vr is one of my favorite things.
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Just started researching this VR stuff today (no idea why), but I'm considering getting a VR for a Note 4. I'm not much of a gamer, so the primary use would be for watching 3D content and what not, but who knows if I'll get into the other stuff.
1. Do any of you solely use the Gear VR for movie watching? Is that your go to method of watching movies now?
2. I'm really not a fan of TouchWiz, and I've been reading that you can play 3D content using another 3rd party player. Is the 3D experience worse outside of the cinema app, or do you get the same immersion? Are any of you running alternate ROMs and happy with the Gear VR?
3. For 3D rips, obviously close to source is best. Are the ~2GB rips from torrent sites complete crap for the VR experience?
4. Is there anything in particular through hacking/experimenting that you found pretty cool?
I can only tell you for Gear VR 2 (Samsung S6), but Oculus Cinema should be the pretty same:
1) not sure. I watched for 2 hours 2d movie and the screen is too big (i think), you can not watch the whole screen at a time, at least not for details. If the movie uses cuts often, it is hard to adapt the new viewing angle that fast. Maybe with more training for myself...
2) you can use cardboard players (bad) or you have to recode 3d-sbs to 1920x520-sbs for example (so every side has right aspect ratio). Then you can play with mx-player but no lens correction. All cardboard players suffer on missing AC3 codec, needs to recode audio to mp3 or similar.
3) torrent site crap i do not know, use 1080p-sbs content (4-10 GB), that is good quality
4) Thats what we all are waiting for. At least an AC3-codec like for mx-player would be nice!
1) definitely not. Pixels (resolution) on such a huge virtual screen turned me off.
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Just started researching this VR stuff today (no idea why), but I'm considering getting a VR for a Note 4. I'm not much of a gamer, so the primary use would be for watching 3D content and what not, but who knows if I'll get into the other stuff.
1. Do any of you solely use the Gear VR for movie watching? Is that your go to method of watching movies now?
2. I'm really not a fan of TouchWiz, and I've been reading that you can play 3D content using another 3rd party player. Is the 3D experience worse outside of the cinema app, or do you get the same immersion? Are any of you running alternate ROMs and happy with the Gear VR?
3. For 3D rips, obviously close to source is best. Are the ~2GB rips from torrent sites complete crap for the VR experience?
4. Is there anything in particular through hacking/experimenting that you found pretty cool?
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1. Yes and no - have a 120" projector screen so the gear vr doesn't really compare. But it is great in those situations where you don't have the option of using a large screen, or you only have a small lcd tv at home. The movie experience is pretty great on the gear vr especially if you re-enode your Blu-ray to full-sbs 720p movies.
2. Yes it is worse, so for now the cinema app is the best app.
3. 2Gb anything is crap when it comes to full movies.
4. Just remove the cushioning in order to get a much larger fov!
2) Kodi beats Oculus cinema hands down with network and 2d support.