Sunday 29 January 2017

Rip DVD for Playback on Google Cardboard with 3D effect

Google Cardboard, another excellent virtual reality headset followed with Samsung Gear VRZeiss VR One, has gained widespread reputations amongest 3D lovers, not only because of its lower price, but also its powerful compatibility with nearly any smartphones including Android and iPhone. If you happen to have a bunch of DVD collections at home, it's a pity for you can not get them on your Andorid/iOS devices through Google Cardboard with 3D Effects. In this article, I'll glad to share some useful tips to help you move your DVD medias into Google Cardboard for viewing freely on your smartphone. 



As a matter of fact, Google Cardboard lacks ability to play DVD movies but it can play Side-by-Side MP4 videos. So in order to watch DVD in Google Cardboard, firstly you'll rip and convert DVDs to SBS MP4 videos. To do this, you can use Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. With it, you can convert 2D DVD as well as 2D/3D Blu-ray to Google Cardboard supported side-by-side video files with lossless quality. In addition, it offers other 3D videos as MKV Top-bottom 3D video, MP4 top-bottom 3D video, MKV side-by-side 3D video, which can play on Gear VR, VR One, Oculus Rift DK2, PS VR, Google DayDream View etc. perfectly.

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Ripping DVD for viewing in Google Cardboard is simple as ABC. After downloading, follow the wizard to install and run the program. Then follow the steps below to convert DVD to MP4/MKV SBS video. The below guide takes DVD Ripper for Windows (macos Sierra compatible) screenshots for example. If you're using a Windows PC, simply turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate, which has the same function as the Mac version. Keep in mind that you have download the rght version, Mac OS .dmg files cannot be installed on Windows platform – and vice versa.

Simple Steps to Rip DVD for watching on Google Cardboard

a: Load DVD movies

Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-ROM, run Dimo DVD to VR video converter and click "Add DVD" icon to load DVD movies.



b: Choose output format

Click the format bar to follow "Format > Video" and choose the MP4 or MOV format which can fit your Google Cardboard or mobile phone perfectly.

Tip: If you like, you can click "Settings" which is next to "Format", free change your target video size, bitrate, frame rate and 3D depth. If you want to get best video quality, pls switch them to "original".



c: Select 3D effects 

Click on "Edit" > 3D and choose 3D effect (Red-Blue, Left-Right, Top-Bottom three modes) from the option. Here "Left-Right" can be set to get a side-by-side video. You are able to get immediate preview of 3D effect within the built-in player. 



c: Start DVD ripping

Click the "Start" button, and the DVD ripper will start the conversion from DVD movies to 3D SBS video for Google Cardboard. After conversion, open output file destination, locate the created SBS 3D MP4 video and you could view the ripped DVD movies in Google Cardboard via iPhone/Android as you want. You can adjust your phone left or right in your Cardboard holder to help to maximize the 3D depth as well as focus the viewing area as closely to the center of the screen as possible.

Note: You'll have to download the compatible iOS or Android VR player apps that are capable of projecting stereoscopic content. Learn more and get your own Cardboard viewer at http://g.co/cardboard.

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Thursday 26 January 2017

Watching 3D YouTube movies on Sony Bravia 3D Television

Nowadays, with the rapid development of technologies, more and more people are able to and become interested in watching 3D movies. However, still many people don't know where to get that 3D movies at present. Actually, 3D YouTube movies are good sources for your 3D glasses, VR headsets or 3D TV. Then here comes the question: Can Sony Bravia 3D TV be able to play YouTube 3D movie files? You have probably tried this at some time however can't play them on Sony 3D TV after trying all the efforts. If you've some downloaded 3D YouTube videos that you would love to watch in Sony Bravia 3D TV offiline, you've come to the right place.



According to Sony Support, the YouTube website offers several types of 3D content. Content located in the YouTube Gallery require anaglyph 3D glasses. 3D videos that are supported by Sony 3D TVs are also made available through the Youtube website. 

You probably can access many 3D video sources from YouTube, and most of them are 3D files in FLV format. While, the 3D YouTube .flv can be read by directly Sony Bravia 3D TV, as the playable format of the Sony Bravia 3D TV (include its 3D glasses) have strict requirements. So, change 3D YouTube videos to SBS MP4 3D, a more common format for Sony Bravia 3D TV with 3D display device is a have-to-do step.

Actually, it's very easy as long as you have an outstanding 3D YouTube video converterDimo Video Converter Ultimate is such a smart tool for you. The software is able to convert 3D YouTube FLV as well as virtually all video formats like MKV, VOB, MOV, WMV, MTS, AVI, MP4, Tivo, H.265, etc to Sony Bravia 3D TV friendly file formats like 3D SBS MP4 without quality loss. 

Plus, it offers kinds of preset profiles for HD TVs including Apple TV, Sony TV, Panasonic TV, Samsung TV, LG TV, etc to meet your different needs. What's more, with the built-in editor, you can trim, crop, adjust special effect to your YouTube video, so that you get the very part and effects at your will. If you are a Mac user, please turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac (macOS Sierra included), which can help you transcode 3D YouTube FLV files to Sony Bravia 3D TV supported file formats on Mac OS X. Now download the right program and refer to the guide below for more conversion instructions.

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Transcode 3D YouTube files to SBS MP4 for running on Sony Bravia 3D TV

Step 1: Run the 3D YouTube video converter, and click the "Add file" button to load YouTube FLV videos. Or simply drop your .flv videos into this 3D video converter.



Step 2: Click the dropdown list of "Select Format" and set a Sony Bravia 3D TV supported format.  

We recommend you to choose MP4 under "Format > Video > MP4.

Step 3: Start adding 3D Side-by-side effect to your MP4 files. Click "Edit" and you can adding Anaglyphic Red-Blue, Left-right, Top-Bottom 3D effect (Here "Left-right" is recommended) as well as adding watermark, trim your videos and so on. 



Tip: If you like, you can click on Settings you could easily set bitrate, frame rate, codec, channels, sample rate, etc to adjust parameters that affect video quality and file size for the video you prefer. Keep in mind video bitrate higher results in bigger file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa. 1920x1080 compressed side-by-side 3D should be resampled to 1920x540 resolution full side-by-side resolution. And keep audio in AAC or MP3. 

Step 4: Finally, after all necessary settings are done, click "Start" to start converting 3D YouTube to 3D SBS MP4 video. After the conversion is finished, you can get the encoded files under "Open" panel; now you can streamconverted movies to Sony Bravia 3D Television without any issue.

Tip 1. Follow these steps to access 3D YouTube videos on Sony Bravia 3D online:
  • Make sure that the TV has been set up to access the Internet video channels.
  • Make sure that the 3D feature has been properly set up.
  • Access the YouTube channel from Video section of the TV menu.
  • Perform a search using yt3d in the search field.
Tip 2. How to Find 3D videos:

There's three main ways to find 3D content on YouTube. 

Firstly, when the service was original launched, a special tag of "yt3D:enable=true" had to be applied to get the 3D button and functionality to appear. That's not true anymore, but there's an archive of stuff in there and some people are still tagging their videos like that, so it's worth a look.?

Secondly, YouTube has official 3D channel to highlight some of the better video. 

Thirdly, there's a number of professional and affiliated channels producing fantastic 3D content, so here's some of the Best 3D videos in Youtube YT3D.

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