3D quirks fixed

I have been downloading various files and movies in different formats and trying to get them to play in 3D as they should.

The list so far includes the following

3D BD ISO vitual mounted using DVDFab (free software) using Arcsofts Totalmedia 5 to play them, PowerDVD doesn't seem to work with vitual drives

MKV 3D movies, the Nvidia #D Vision Video player works for these perfectly with some tweaking, just watch the full Avatar 3D movie and it was superb

WMV smaples which are on the Nvidia 3D Vision Live website work great with 3D Vision player

All of the above took some tweaking to get to work but are now 100%

so for anyone having the same issues I know all these combinations to work on my machine

I tried VLC - Stereoscopic player and a few others but the combination above it good to go

The vitual BD mounting SW was a great find.

Any questions give me shout

another tip, if playing 3D games play at 1280/720 they all work extremely well at this resolution, increasing to 1920/1080 on a small screen makes the contents too small for 3D effect on a small screen

Also Power DVD has an update, if you click the little Green icon top left of screen it will take you there, haven't tried it with the update yet.

oh and lastly a good little tool for Nvidia cards - Nvidia Inspector, it allows overclocking and you can set a desktop shortcut for your clock speeds

 

Curious, for the mvk 3d, where you have double images side by side, how do you get them to converge into 1 blurry image suitable for the shutter glasses?

 

you need to select side by side left first in Nvision video player in the layout menu under files and it will remember your setting from then on, oh and it doesn't play mkv files as standard, I also loaded klite codec, don't know if it was required or not as I didn't do a before and after so it might be but it all works just great, to be honest I installed a lot of stuff and got it all working then uninstalled what I didn't need or want, so the above programs are what I now have that work with everything

 

I guess the only real draw back is the side by side (SbS) format is at half resolution that is then stretched back to the Full HD resolution that the sequential mode has. That also means half the bandwidth demands with allows for other short cuts. For me, its a steep price to pay, but for others, its not.

 

yeh good point, on the small screen it's not an issue but might be on an external large screen like a 50" TV, it's a toss up beteen file size and quality I guess, original BD formats are huge and for me impractical to download

 

so Arcsofts Totalmedia 5, is a good replacement for power dvd. especially playing files that is on your hard drive?
will magic iso work like the dvdfab?

 

ASTM 5 works with the Virtual drive s/w, power dvd comes up with an error - your drive does not support blah blah, I tried Power iso and Daemon tools, they both have issues with BD, like I said the combination above works 100% which is why I posted it should save a bit of time for most people going through the same process, I started with a lot of unknowns and lots of trial and error until eventually found this combination, looking forward to other solutions if peeps have any..cheers