After tweaking a little with the overclocking everything runs fine and smooth, except 3D.
When I start to play a 3D movie, it plays but does not automatically switch my TV to 3D mode (Philips 55PFL6097).
And further on if I enable the OSD or debug information, the view through the 3D glasses is not possible because those OSDs do not get splitted for example H-SBS.
I only got one 3D movie in my movie collection and renamed it this way: moviename-3d-1080p.H-SBS.mkv
Is there anything I forgot? Do I need to set something special so the menu get's splitted/converted, too?
I've got a little problem with my rasplex setup. After tweaking a little with the overclocking everything runs fine and smooth, except 3D.
When I start to play a 3D movie, it plays but does not automatically switch my TV to 3D mode (Philips 55PFL6097). And further on if I enable the OSD or debug information, the view through the 3D glasses is not possible because those OSDs do not get splitted for example H-SBS.
I only got one 3D movie in my movie collection and renamed it this way: moviename-3d-1080p.H-SBS.mkv
Is there anything I forgot? Do I need to set something special so the menu get's splitted/converted, too?
You didn't forget anything. It's just that no version of any Plex client has any kind of 3D support whatsoever...! And the same goes for the PMS server, which doesn't have any recognition of 3D encoding implemented.
RasPlex is just a port of "Plex Home Theater" for the Raspberry Pi, without any additions apart from what's needed for the hardware and OS to work properly. (Hence the RasPlex-specific "System Settings" menu, which doesn't exist in 'upstream' PHT.)
If/when 3D support is added to the "Plex Home Theater" project, then you can expect it to be ported to RasPlex as well.
RasPlex is simply not 3D capable? I'm wondering because two things:
1. Everyone in the forum speak about naming convention and to include H-SBS or Half-SBS in the filename so Plex is able to recognize.
2. If I switch my TV manually to 3D I can watch the movie (without subtitles). If I stop the movie and the menu appears, the TV automatically switches to 2D, so the 3D mode get's disabled.
Can you please explain, especially the second point, how this works if Plex is not 3D aware? Just trying to understand technically.
SBS is an encoding method where half the picture is the left frame and the other half the right frame, your 3D capable TV does the conversion. RasPlex is just decoding, what it sees as, a standard video stream. So RasPlex isn't doing any 3D of any kind, hence the 2D subtitles on a 3D canvas... if it was aware it may be possible to show the subtitles on both "sides" of the image.
I just ran this in PHT, it isn't 3D aware either (tested with an SBS encoded 720p movie) since the OSD displays across the whole screen, the same way the subtitles are doing for you.
Like KnightOrc said, all ‘seeming’ 3D support is in fact provided by the TV set, since NONE of the Plex components are 3D-aware in any way.
As for 3D subtitles, simple SRT subtitles are not suitable for use with 3D movies played through Plex. Instead you need to use a 3D format with ability to position text precisely on the two picture ‘halves’ simultaneously. For this I normally use 3D-adapted “.ass” subtitles, converted to that format from normal 2D SRT subtitles by using special subtitle converter programs such as “srt23dass.exe”.
By this method it is possible to play 3D movies with correctly displayed 3D subtitles. It is still the TV set that has to do the real 3D adaption though.
If you’re connected to a non-3D TV (or force the 3D mode off), then you will see two compressed pictures next to each other, each with its own complete and identical subtitle rows.
Actually they have been. You just didn't realize that this reply applied to all aspects of your questions.
Like I said before:
No Plex component has ANY 3D support.
All 'seeming' 3D support is provided by your TV set.
1) If RasPlex is not 3D aware, how does the TV switch back to 2D when I stop a 3D movie (which I manuelly switched to 3D via TV?)
That's up to the TV manufacturer to implement. Most likely their software does some kind of analysis of the screen content, and when the two screen halves no longer match up like proper 3D content the software switches out of 3D mode. However it really is implemented, none of the Plex components are involved in it. They just deliver the signal to the TV exactly the same way, regardless of whether the TV interprets it as 3D or 2D.
2) Why should I then rename my files to H-SBS or something like that when Plex is not 3D aware?
I never told you to do that. It's only purpose would be as a personal reminder for yourself, to remember which of your files have 3D encoding and which type it is. Personally I use the abbreviations "HSBS" and "HOU" instead, and add them as a 'pseudo extension' before the real extension, in the same way I also do to keep track of HD variations. Sometimes I simply use "3D" instead of "HSBS", since that is the dominant 3D variant in my library. Thus I have files like "Frozen (2013).1080p.3D.mp4", or "Gravity (2013).1080p.HOU.mkv". But all those 'pseudo extensions' are ignored by Plex. They exist only for my personal recognition.
I'm fine with the answers you provided, just want to understand the two things above and how this technically is implemented.
Well, technically none of it is implemented at all, at least not in any Plex components.
The only Plex support involved in this is its ability to just ignore extra 'pseudo extensions'.
