Greetings,
First, a very big thank you to the team and the dedicated users for the new 3D playback capability.
I was wondering if a new standard library field would be appropriate, with the introduction of 3D frame packed playback.
I have been using JR to play my 3D movies for close to 2 years, either directly (SBS, OU) or through auto-launching Stereoscopic Player (for frame packed MVC, when I have a mk3d extension). Most of my movies I ripped to the mkv format, using MakeMKV, but I also have several downloaded SBS/OU.
I use a custom library field to manage my views, but thought that it may be useful to have everybody on the same foot (or eye) and have a standard library field dedicated to 3D playback info.
So I want to start discussions on the appropriateness of a 3D dedicated standard library field, and what could be its format. (disclaimer: I am not an expert on 3D, just a simple user. Something might already be in the works.)
Currently, I have defined a custom field [3D Info]:
Up to now, I have used [3D Info] and the .mk3d file extensions in the following way:
- framed packed MKV: changed file extension to .mk3d (to auto launch Stereoscopic player from MC) and [3D Info]="3D FP"
- SBS MKV: standard .mkv extension and [3D Info]="3D SBS"
- OU MKV: standard .mkv extension and [3D Info]="3D OU"
And I have views for:
- 2D ([3D Info] does not starts with "3D")
- 3D ([3D Info] starts with "3D")
- 3D original quality, frame packed ([3D Info] starts with "3D FP")
Knowing what is the first eye in the stream might prove useful (left or right eye) so an optional L or R might be appended to the previous values, which would yield:
- [3D Info]="" --> 2D (actually, any value that does not start with "3D")
- [3D Info]="3D SBS L" --> 3D side by side left eye first
- [3D Info]="3D SBS R" --> 3D side by side right eye first
- [3D Info]="3D OU L" --> 3D over/under left eye top
- [3D Info]="3D OU R" --> 3D over/under right eye top
- [3D Info]="3D FP L" --> 3D frame packed left eye first
- [3D Info]="3D FP R" --> 3D frame packed right eye first
It might be desirable to expand FP to more values to distinguish between the Blu-ray frame packed format and MVC encoded mkv (mine are all ripped as mkv). The last two would then become:
- [3D Info]="3D BR L" --> 3D frame packed Blu-Ray left eye first
- [3D Info]="3D BR R" --> 3D frame packed Blu-Ray right eye first
- [3D Info]="3D MVC L" --> 3D frame packed mkv left eye first
- [3D Info]="3D MVC R" --> 3D frame packed mkv right eye first
So, please bring in your comments !