[mythtv-users] Projector and Frontend upgrade advice

[Damian]

On 03/03/2015 10:24, Andre Newman wrote:
> On 2 Mar 2015, at 21:15, Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I use MythTV for TV recordings and a Mede8er 800X3D media player for Movies including 3D Bluray mkv rips.
>> I didn't know that Myth couldn't play 3D Bluray rips. I thought that Myth could do anything! :-)
> Myth is really good for broadcast TV but not so much for Movies or Music, IMO, I find I’m using different tools for different jobs.
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>> 3D is all new to me as I've never had a need to look into it before. Thanks for the tip on the Mede8er 800X3D media player. Is there no software method to play 3D rips?
> There’s a Windows software only player but it doesn’t have any GPU acceleration so you need a fairly serious frontend, plus you need windows.
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> There are a few windows players that will play BD ISOs but nothing much yet that will play mkv or a ts.
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> Mike from Makemkv suggested that vdpau supported mvc playback (the format used on 3D BD) and that just playing the file with a vdpau accelerated player would correctly output the frame packed 3D video but I’ve never got that to work and he’s never elaborated.
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> I believe there is some GPL MVC playback code around and some parts of this have found their way in to ffmpeg, so maybe one day the ffmpeg decoding or the vdpau decoding and rendering might end up in MythTV or one of the other players but nothing yet, that I know of. More importantly no-one taking any interest in working on it.
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>> I wasn't looking to by an extra piece of kit just to watch the occasional 3D film. Or is it possible to have something like a Mede8er 800X3D media player also be a MythTV frontend?
> It plays from MythTV with uPnP fine, takes an age to find anything and you never know what episode you are watching. The de-interlacing seems ok, for drama anyway haven’t compared it for sport yet.
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> I just used my PS3 as a 3D BD player for years, some visitors commented that they thought I’d have more Blurays than the 3 or 4 on the shelf but they were only the 3D ones the rest are ripped and stored in the garage. :-)
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> Andre
All sounds like a bit of a shame. I was looking forward to playing with 
a bit of 3D (I've actually enjoyed me experience of it in cinemas), but 
my frontend is nothing special and it's all I'm planning on connecting 
to the projector.

Hey ho, never mind.

Thanks again for all of the info,
Damian