How to Install Boxee on Apple Tv 1
To watch a 3D Movie, you'd need a 3D TV or a computer with 3D capable video-card and/or 3D capable monitor, and not everybody has one of those.
With a few simple tricks however, modern 3D movies can be viewed on a regular TV or computer sans 3D capable display.
To maintain the 3D effect, or better said the depth perception, the good old red/blue glasses will be used (Anaglyph).
This trick works for Windows, MacOS X and Linux.
3D Movie to Anaglyph
The trick we're going to use is displaying a 3D Movie (SBS 3D) as an Anaglyph movie.
Obviously not a colorful as the real deal, but with the proper 3D glasses still pretty cool to watch.
This trick will work for Windows, MacOS X and Linux.
What you need to watch 3D movies without 3D TV
- 3D Movie in SBS (Side-by-Side) format
- Anaglyph Red and Blue 3D Glasses
- VideoLAN Media Player
- Connect your PC to your TV (optional)
We will of course need a 3D movie, and these can be found all over the web, including YouTube. For YouTube videos to work, you'll need to download them first with a tool like "YouTube Options" (an extension for Google Chrome).
Keep in mind though: This trick only works with SBS (Side-by-Side) 3D Movies (see also: How 3D Movies work).
So you'll have to make sure the movie is of this format, recognizable by showing two similar pictures next to each other – see illustration below.
For testing purpose we have made a demo 3D movie available at Tweaking4All – it's not a super big download and it will give you a quick demo.
20th Century Fox – Small Side by Side 3D Demo
Download - 20th Century Fox 3d Demo
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| Date: | 2013-10-30 |
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To be able to get depth perception, you'll also need the good old red and blue 3D Glasses (a.k.a. Anaglyph 3D Glasses), which you might have laying around or you can buy them for really cheap, for example these 3D Sunglasses Red/blue from Amazon.
Old School 3D Glasses
And finally, the free application that is going to display all this: VideoLAN Media Player a.k.a. VLC.
VLC is available on multiple platforms but we're focussing only on the Windows, MacOS X and Linux versions (2.1.0 or newer!) and is capable of playing a SBS 3D movie as an Anaglyph movie. The amount of colors will be reduced of course and the movie looks a little darker,… but it's still watchable.
VideoLAN Media Player
All this will get you to the point of viewing the 3D Movie on any computer connected to any kind of display.
If you want to see this on your TV then please read also the How to connect your PC to your TV article.
For this method you willnot need a 3D Capable TV.
Watch 3D Movies without a 3D TV
Open your video file with VLC. The file format (MP4, AVI, MKV, etc.) is irrelevant, but as said before, the movie must in in SBS 3D format.
p.s. full screen playback works best …
Windows
Note : You should use at least VLC version 2.1.0!
Open the SBS 3D Movie in VLC
Select from the menu "Tools" the option "Effects and Filters" (or press CTRL+E).
Go to the "Effects and Filters" menu
Choose the tab "Video Effects", then the "Advanced" tab, check the option "Anaglyph 3D" and click "Close".
Set VLC to Anaglyph video display
Put on your 3D Glasses and watch the movie in 3D …
VLC in Anaglyph mode
MacOS X
Note : Use at least VLC version 2.1.0!
Open the SBS 3D Movie in VLC
From the menu "Windows" select "Video Effects…" (or press COMMAND+E).
Select the Video Effect from the Windows Menu
Select the "Miscellaneous" tab, check "Anaglyph" and close the window.
Set VLC to Anaglyph
Your movie will now be shown in Anaglyph mode, so start using those 3D Glasses.
VLC in Anaglyph mode
Linux
Note : For Linux you'll need at least VLC version 2.1.0 as well, which can be surprisingly complicated for the average user.
Ubuntu for example lags a few version behind in their repository, so if your Ubuntu version does not have 2.1.0 or newer installed, you might have to resort to the following command line statements to get the latest version – which is not necessarily a stable version:
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/master-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc
Open the SBS 3D Movie in VLC
From the "Tools" menu choose "Effects and Filters" (or press CTRL+E).
Go to the "Effects and Filters" menu
From the "Video Effects" tab, select the "Advanced" tab, check "Anaglyph 3D" and click "Close".
Set VLC to Anaglyph video display
Your movie will now be shown in Anaglyph mode, so start using those 3D Glasses.
VLC in Anaglyph mode
How to Install Boxee on Apple Tv 1
Source: https://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/watch-3d-movies-without-3d-tv/