The good news is that I have created a guide that you can use for correct playback as follows:
Unless you play with this software, it is not very easy to figure out how to properly play stereoscopic 3D since automatic functions do not work well, and no suitable guides are available from the developer. The uncluttered modern-day interface is something you may like. It will not endanger playback but I couldn’t appreciate it. The first thing you will observe when you open this player is that it comes up with an error message, “WinAPI, Quad Buffered stereo not supported”. External subtitle files like SRT worked but SUB/IDX didn’t work. Embedded subtitle files like UTF-8 worked while PGS (zlib) didn’t work.
Half-side-by-side (half-SBS or H-SBS) or full-side-by-side (full-SBS or F-SBS) or half-over-the-under (half-OU or H-OU) 1080P AVC-x264/DTS-5.1/MKV files worked with zero issues. I have tested sView Windows version # 13.05 in Windows 7 Professional 64 bit with active display and Nvidia active shutter glasses. NVIDIA warning message (which is removeable)īefore I elaborate, I must tell you that you need 3D hardware like 3D monitor/glasses to make playback work with this software.No Windows XP support Win8 support is unknown.Error message at the launch (see discussion below for more details).Computer fans may go berserk during playback.No automatic proper playback (see discussion below for more details).Support to active shutter glasses (IR) and passive anaglyph (red-cyan) glasses.Features like taking 3D screenshot included.Preferred subtitle and audio track support.Typical stereoscopic 3D playback (see discussion below for more details).For the purposes of this review, we specifically looked at the Windows version.
It works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. SView is a free, open source, and cross-platform stereoscopic 3D media player. However, when it comes to 3D stereoscopic files, we rarely see a media player available for free. For 2D files, we have a plethora of media players in any standard OS. Moreover, as long as the device hardware/OS/software supports, the digital files in your drive can virtually be played in any device. No wonder why people like DRM free digital file in the hard/flash drive for playback without any hitch. For example, a DVD bought in US may not play in India if it is not region-free or blu-ray disc (BD) won’t play anywhere other than standalone BD players, typical BD media players in computers or consoles like Sony PlayStation 3. If you are like me, you definitely dislike optical disc playback because sometimes playback fails reasons behind failure include, but are not limited to, faulty disc, region lock, device limitation.