3-D MVC files (blu-ray rips) play fine through my Vero V, but I am having issues with full and half SBS and TAB files. SBS files will not play in 3-D at all; they either display in 2-D or in a garbled mess.
Half TAB files do display in 3-D, but the vertical alignment is off enough to induce eyestrain:
Full TAB has the same vertical alignment issues in addition to being horizontally squashed and shifted over to the right of the display:
The exact same files play with no vertical alignment issues through Stereoscopic Player on my PC:
I reproduced both issues with debug logging turned on. The file is here: https://paste.osmc.tv/ocamuwunan
According to the log you’ve set “adjust display refresh rate” to “off”. Set it to “on start/stop” and retry.
Thank you for the suggestion. I set “adjust refresh rate“ to “always“ and that fixed part of the problem in the second picture (image squashed and not centered). So now both half and full TAB look like the first picture I posted with the image properly centered and not horizontally squashed.
Unfortunately, both half and full TAB have the left and right images vertically misaligned (look at the text in the first picture). And both half and full SBS continue to not work at all (image is garbled).
In all cases, my projector is reporting that it is receiving Frame Packed 1080p/24.
I am authoring my SBS and TAB content myself. They are encoded in h264 and placed in an MKV container. Is there perhaps an MKV header value that I am not setting correctly that could be causing the issues? Or should I try a different codec and/or container?
SBS/TAB movies must have a 16:9 aspect ratio. If you have for example a 1920 x 800 instead of 1920 x 1080 Half-SBS clip, then you get a garbled experience. That’s a current limitation … or you can also call it a bug 
. I’m already working on that issue, but it’s difficult to solve.
The same is true for FullSBS/TAB clips (like e.g. 32:9 aspect ratio).
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The player is very sensitive to the resolution of the file. I have found that 3840x1080 H.264 works very well, so long as the file name contains “3D” and “SBS”.
