Simultaneously playing two movies at once (one for each eye) on 3D TV from my PC?
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I’ve been searching the web and so far not found any easy way of displaying two films at once from my computer, I hope that it can be done.
Background: Currently I’ve a PC (with GTX 660 Ti) downstairs that I use to play 3D games on our TV (LG 42LM760T) via HDMI. This works very well and my girlfriend and I are also able to watch 3D Blu-Rays through it fine thanks to PowerDVD. We also own some LG Dual Play glasses (one pair has left-eye, left-eye lenses, the other has right-eye, right-eye lenses).
Is it possible that we can use these dual play glasses to both watch our own films (one film will be sent to ‘left-eye’ and the other to ‘right-eye’)? I realise one or both of us would need to also wear headphones, but we have a wireless pare so that shouldn’t be a problem.
So far I’ve tried to use the TV’s Dual Play functionality to play two films that I’ve set in a classic ‘split-screen’ configuration, but it distorts the images by stretching to fit screen. Then it didn’t allow me to use Dual Play if I set my screen resolution to say 1920x540 or 1920x2160 to try and count the stretch.
It would be nice if it could be done on the PC side, having the correct 3D signal sent to TV rather than getting the TV to also process the image (as no loss of resolution etc.).
Ideally it may be nice to fool windows into thinking it has two 1080p monitors connected instead of one 1080p 3D ‘monitor’. That way I could play games while she watches films (and a whole host of other possibilities).
If anyone knows any ways of achieving this, would be great to set it up,
Thanks in advance,
SiCoe
I’ve been searching the web and so far not found any easy way of displaying two films at once from my computer, I hope that it can be done.
Background: Currently I’ve a PC (with GTX 660 Ti) downstairs that I use to play 3D games on our TV (LG 42LM760T) via HDMI. This works very well and my girlfriend and I are also able to watch 3D Blu-Rays through it fine thanks to PowerDVD. We also own some LG Dual Play glasses (one pair has left-eye, left-eye lenses, the other has right-eye, right-eye lenses).
Is it possible that we can use these dual play glasses to both watch our own films (one film will be sent to ‘left-eye’ and the other to ‘right-eye’)? I realise one or both of us would need to also wear headphones, but we have a wireless pare so that shouldn’t be a problem.
So far I’ve tried to use the TV’s Dual Play functionality to play two films that I’ve set in a classic ‘split-screen’ configuration, but it distorts the images by stretching to fit screen. Then it didn’t allow me to use Dual Play if I set my screen resolution to say 1920x540 or 1920x2160 to try and count the stretch.
It would be nice if it could be done on the PC side, having the correct 3D signal sent to TV rather than getting the TV to also process the image (as no loss of resolution etc.).
Ideally it may be nice to fool windows into thinking it has two 1080p monitors connected instead of one 1080p 3D ‘monitor’. That way I could play games while she watches films (and a whole host of other possibilities).
If anyone knows any ways of achieving this, would be great to set it up,
Dual Play works with 2 separate signals, right? 2 separate inputs? I'm not sure if you can run 2 monitors in 3D at the same time or not but if you could, you might be able to hook it up to two outputs from your GPU perhaps. Maybe one to HDMI and another to the DVI with an HDMI adapter.
Dual Play works with 2 separate signals, right? 2 separate inputs? I'm not sure if you can run 2 monitors in 3D at the same time or not but if you could, you might be able to hook it up to two outputs from your GPU perhaps. Maybe one to HDMI and another to the DVI with an HDMI adapter.
[quote="TsaebehT"]Dual Play works with 2 separate signals, right? 2 separate inputs? I'm not sure if you can run 2 monitors in 3D at the same time or not but if you could, you might be able to hook it up to two outputs from your GPU perhaps. Maybe one to HDMI and another to the DVI with an HDMI adapter.[/quote]
Unfortunately not, Dual Play works by taking half of a split-screen (vertical or horizontal depending on how you set it up) and displaying stretched to full screen for one eye, and the other half of the split-screen displayed stretched for the other eye.
I do like your idea though and think 3D TV companies should also have that feature. Would mean you could play two consoles, blu-ray players, set-top boxes etc simultaneously.
TsaebehT said:Dual Play works with 2 separate signals, right? 2 separate inputs? I'm not sure if you can run 2 monitors in 3D at the same time or not but if you could, you might be able to hook it up to two outputs from your GPU perhaps. Maybe one to HDMI and another to the DVI with an HDMI adapter.
Unfortunately not, Dual Play works by taking half of a split-screen (vertical or horizontal depending on how you set it up) and displaying stretched to full screen for one eye, and the other half of the split-screen displayed stretched for the other eye.
I do like your idea though and think 3D TV companies should also have that feature. Would mean you could play two consoles, blu-ray players, set-top boxes etc simultaneously.
In theory you should be able to edit the video so the L side is one movie with mono sound going to the L channel and vice versa for the other side and either give her one earbud or get a stereo to mono splitter ... but if you're looking to 'get away' with watching *ahem* one thing while she's watching another I'd be a little worried about crosstalk. :)
In theory you should be able to edit the video so the L side is one movie with mono sound going to the L channel and vice versa for the other side and either give her one earbud or get a stereo to mono splitter ... but if you're looking to 'get away' with watching *ahem* one thing while she's watching another I'd be a little worried about crosstalk. :)
[quote="Likay"]Sound may be an issue though.[/quote]
I can already send sound from different applications to different audio ports on the computer, therefore one port can be for main living room speakers and another for wireless headphones for myself (or both headphones) etc. It's having the different applications show on different eye channels of the 3D TV that is my issue.
I can already send sound from different applications to different audio ports on the computer, therefore one port can be for main living room speakers and another for wireless headphones for myself (or both headphones) etc. It's having the different applications show on different eye channels of the 3D TV that is my issue.
I’ve been searching the web and so far not found any easy way of displaying two films at once from my computer, I hope that it can be done.
Background: Currently I’ve a PC (with GTX 660 Ti) downstairs that I use to play 3D games on our TV (LG 42LM760T) via HDMI. This works very well and my girlfriend and I are also able to watch 3D Blu-Rays through it fine thanks to PowerDVD. We also own some LG Dual Play glasses (one pair has left-eye, left-eye lenses, the other has right-eye, right-eye lenses).
Is it possible that we can use these dual play glasses to both watch our own films (one film will be sent to ‘left-eye’ and the other to ‘right-eye’)? I realise one or both of us would need to also wear headphones, but we have a wireless pare so that shouldn’t be a problem.
So far I’ve tried to use the TV’s Dual Play functionality to play two films that I’ve set in a classic ‘split-screen’ configuration, but it distorts the images by stretching to fit screen. Then it didn’t allow me to use Dual Play if I set my screen resolution to say 1920x540 or 1920x2160 to try and count the stretch.
It would be nice if it could be done on the PC side, having the correct 3D signal sent to TV rather than getting the TV to also process the image (as no loss of resolution etc.).
Ideally it may be nice to fool windows into thinking it has two 1080p monitors connected instead of one 1080p 3D ‘monitor’. That way I could play games while she watches films (and a whole host of other possibilities).
If anyone knows any ways of achieving this, would be great to set it up,
Thanks in advance,
SiCoe
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Unfortunately not, Dual Play works by taking half of a split-screen (vertical or horizontal depending on how you set it up) and displaying stretched to full screen for one eye, and the other half of the split-screen displayed stretched for the other eye.
I do like your idea though and think 3D TV companies should also have that feature. Would mean you could play two consoles, blu-ray players, set-top boxes etc simultaneously.
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I can already send sound from different applications to different audio ports on the computer, therefore one port can be for main living room speakers and another for wireless headphones for myself (or both headphones) etc. It's having the different applications show on different eye channels of the 3D TV that is my issue.