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Old 2nd December 2010, 18:21   #4  |  Link
kurkosdr
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Originally Posted by Dark Shikari View Post
The reason 3D isn't implemented in any major media players is because nobody cares about 3D except television manufacturers.
For now. When the new 3D TVs that don't require glasses roll out, it 'll suddenly be everywhere.
They said the same about 1080p videos. "720p is fine", "upscalers will make DVDs look as good as 1080p", "most monitors are 768p so no one really cares" etc but when panel prices dropped, 1080p videos where suddenly everywhere, and VLC started to feel old. Videolan had to rush to get DXVA and multicore support for VLC.

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Also because there's no standardized method of outputting 3D video. There's about 6 different methods out there, at least, all of them mutually contradictory; just see Youtube's "3D player" for an example of the madness.
Ok, got to agree with that. But the fact there is no mvc support in x264 is somewhat strange, if we take into account that mvc is an open (as in open specs) format. Now, the only way to put an mpeg 4 mvc stream inside an MKV is to take it from an m2ts file as-is, which will result in a enormous file. It only serves as an experiment. The ability to re-encode would help 3D MKVs take over the world.

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