Thursday 19 July 2012

HowTo Convert SBS to Red\Cyan using MPClassic

This is the technique i personally use to convert 3d content to anaglyph 3d format so you can see the 3d effects on ANY display !

in this post i will show you how to convert specifically Side-by-side and HALF-side-by-side 3d content to Red/Cyan anaglyph format using a few FREE tools :)

The tools you will need to download and install are : 

Ok , so you have downloaded and installed all the tools above, now we are ready to configure them !!


Configure FFDshow:-

1) Gotto Start Menu > Programs > FFDshow > and click video decoder configuration

2) Select Codecs and setup ffdshow to use all of the formats that you want to convert to 3d 
    (usually h.264 and xvid will be the main formats you are going to be decoding)

3)Now scroll down to the avisynth tab , and activate it by checking the box

4)Now enter the following into the script box 

c = ConvertToRGB32()
w = c.width()/2
h = c.height()/2
LeftRight3DToRCAnaglyph(c).Lanczos4Resize(w, h)

it should now look like this ... save and close


5) Setup FFDshow audio decoders if you feel its neccesary Start Menu>>Programs>>FFDshow>>audio decoder configuration and select all you want it to decode, this is not neccesary to setup if your sound is already playing fine and you are happy with your current sound decoders, personally i use AC3filter

Now your ready to rock 'n  roll ! .. in 3D !! :D just open your video file in media player classic and if all is well it will be combining the SBS images into 1 single anaglyph video :)

if you still just see the normal SBS image then Media Player Classic is probably not using FFDshow to decode the video, hence now applying the avs script to it , if this is the case see below on howto force mpc to use ffdshow decoder

Here is some samples of the end result , put on your Red/Cyan glasses (cyan is blue :P ) and enjoy :D


Configuring Media Player Classic if it wont use ffdshow to playback video :-

1)Open Media Player Classic and gotto View>>Options to bring up the  Options menu

2)On “Internal Filter” unchecked all Filters

3)On “External Filter” unchecked all Filters and click Add Filter to add another filters

4)Find “ffdshow Video Decoder” and change from “Set Merit” to “Prefer"



5 comments:

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  2. this dont work more need to explain in more detail

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  3. This dont work..

    I got script error..

    Please show how.

    =)

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  4. please make sure that the 3dplugin is installed correctly into avisynth, copy the file Pantarheon3D.avsi to the Avisynth plugins directory (which will be something along the lines of C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins , i just setup an old box using this tutorial and it worked for me again as it always does

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  5. Thank you. The tutorial works on my computer. Howeer, the result is not that good compared to those filters in VLC or KODI player. I get strong ghosting effect on left eye. Blue/cyan images that intended for right eyes can be strongly seen by left eye.
    How do we overcome this issue?

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