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you
Protege
What software are you guys using to play side by side 3d video? I had been using MaxVR, but I'm still on a dk2 with 0.8 runtime, and I have a feeling if I upgrade to 1.3, it wont work anymore. So what are some other good options? I tried Whirligig... it seemed pretty lacking...

Features I care most about -
- Threaded decoding (gpu accelerated would be nice)
- Ability to recenter the screen
- Various shaped screens (180 dome, 360 sphere, etc...)
- Ability to adjust the camera/pov angle
- Keyboard shortcuts for all of the above
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Rayvolution
Heroic Explorer
I'd like a good answer for this as well.

Currently, I am using Whirlgig and Virtual Desktop, both work great. But Virtual Desktop has trouble with some codecs (esp. HEVC), and Whirlgig seems to be very CPU bound and can't play full quality 60FPS video all that well.

MaxVR and LiveViewRift both are DOA in 1.3+. 🙂

What did you find lacking in Whirligig? Last time I used it, it did all those things except I'm not sure about the threaded decoding bit.

It does barrel, sphere, panoramic, 180, 360, flat cinema, curved cinema, and quite a few more. Adjustments for tilt, rotation, zoom, distance etc.

I downloaded the user manual which includes the keyboard shortcuts if you want to give it another go

cheers

Edit. @Rayvolution, I'll try running some 60fps videos on my system and see how it copes.


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ThreeDeeVision
Superstar
I use the Steam version of Whirligig and it works flawlessly with all sorts of Video types on the Rift and the Vive.  Even has a simulated drive-in theater mode and many different simulated screen modes.  Great software for the price.
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Rayvolution
Heroic Explorer


What did you find lacking in Whirligig? Last time I used it, it did all those things except I'm not sure about the threaded decoding bit.

It does barrel, sphere, panoramic, 180, 360, flat cinema, curved cinema, and quite a few more. Adjustments for tilt, rotation, zoom, distance etc.

I downloaded the user manual which includes the keyboard shortcuts if you want to give it another go

cheers

Edit. @Rayvolution, I'll try running some 60fps videos on my system and see how it copes.




Seems it's mainly just UHD 60 FPS video. Anything 30FPs at any resolution I seem to be fine with, and I assume lower resolution 60 FPS video will work fine too, but I don't have any to test.

Poked around their forums and it seems the dev is aware of the problem, he's dealing with some bottlenecks in Unity he's trying to workout. I can play the same video in DivX or VLC just fine at full framerate, so it seems to be an issue specific to Whirligig.

I also can't play HEVC video at all in Virtual Desktop, but that could just be a codec problem on my end, or lack of support on Virtual Desktop's end. I haven't looked much into it since I only discovered the problem yesterday. 🙂

So far Whirligig is great though, aside from not being able to play UHDp60 video through HEVC at full speed. It's been able to play literally anything I throw at it! 😄

@Rayvolution, thanks for the info... I guess I just haven't dived into 60fps much. ATW is dealing with the lower frame rate videos pretty well.

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Anonymous
Not applicable
Currently I use Virtual Desktop. It works pretty nicely but I find that the scale is off in both 180 and 360 videos. You feel shrunk down because everything seems magnified 1.5 times.

you
Protege
So looking at the whirligig manual... Some pretty basic media player features seem to be missing... is there no next/previous key binding? Playlist/shuffle support?

I have a bunch of short 360 youtube clips it would be nice to scan through.

As mentioned above, virtual desktop player is unusable. Any other options?

Rayvolution
Heroic Explorer

you said:

So looking at the whirligig manual... Some pretty basic media player features seem to be missing... is there no next/previous key binding? Playlist/shuffle support?

I have a bunch of short 360 youtube clips it would be nice to scan through.

As mentioned above, virtual desktop player is unusable. Any other options?


Whiriligig is a weird program IMO. It's interface is absolutely terrible (clunky and hard to navigate until you memorize a lot of the shortcuts). But it's extremely flexible and seems to play the most content. It has all the bells and whistles to get what you want done, but it's certainly not a streamlined easy to use program.

For example, I can't tell you how many times I shut down the program by accident trying to go back to the menu/settings (ESC key is an instant close without warning). There's also strange, unnatural navigation, for example when you're in the basic settings menu you'd think hitting enter, space or something when highlighting the video name would bring up the video explorer list, it doesnt, it launches the video. You have to hit F8 to get to the file navigation part.

Interface aside, my only issue has been trying to play 60FPS UHD video, but that's hard to pull off even without VR. That's a lot of fricken pixels to push.

As I said though, once you're used to it, it's fine. Your first 10-15 minutes you'll want to throw your HMD in a fit of nerd-rage because of how many times you'll misclick or get confused trying to navigate.

ThreeDeeVision
Superstar
I have found the the controller interface is the best way to navigate Whirligig.  The XBox One controller works perfect and the buttons are easy to figure out.  They also have a config screen that shows you what the buttons do.  I agree though, it is very clunky and took me a bit to figure out the various functions.
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