3D side by side HMV's

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The time has come to start sharing my conversions!

Unfortunately, I have only converted the original downloads that I have found. None of my upscales.

I require a second GPU for my other PC so that I may start the frame rate and resolution upscales without taking up my main PC for weeks on end.

Expect those in the future. I’ve made a second account that will handle these posts and what not. Once they have finished uploading to mega, I’ll make a new post under that account and then provide a link to that post here.

I hope you all enjoy!

Just a heads up, they are all half width conversions for use with VR headsets in Whirligig. They look best under fisheye viewing. In the future I’ll be making a normal full width conversion of all these videos as well.

For those of you using some sort of a phone mounted headset, I’m sorry, these first versions will not likely work for you unless you are able to adjust the width of your video with a slider. They are half width, so if you can extend them from 100% to 200%, it’ll be pretty close, and hold you over until I have the second wave converted.

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Looking forward to seeing your work!

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Still working on making an official account I’d like for the library. But in the mean time I’ll share it here so people can start checking it out. Here is the link to the unscripted videos. The scripted ones are uploading. I’ll post that too once it’s done. I keep them separated.

Remember to transfer the files to your account prior to downloading!

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I call them braindances as a synonym, just like in Cyberpunk.

Here are the instructions:

Brain Dance Instructions:

Whirligig Unscripted:
To Play videos: Navigate to Folder within Whirligig
Best Projection Type: Set Whirligig Projection to Fisheye
FOV: In fisheye, 90-130 (Most videos look best at 90, but depending on the distance of the content within the video, you may adjust higher as desired)
Diameter: Adjust to MAX(24.0)

Depth: The I set the conversion depth to a very good average fo most IPD. If focus needs adjustment for your eyes, navigate to the Depth tab and adjust the slider as requred. This will adjust the depth for the current video, and you will need to do so for every video once. Every time you adjust the video settings whirligig saves those settings for each video so you will not be required to after the first time.

For use with scripts:

Setup:
I have only done my testing with FredTungsten’s ScriptPlayer.

Script Player Settings:
Within Script Player go to the “Video Player” tab at the top and select “whirligig”. Click “OK” when it pops up the next window.

Whirligig Settings:
Navigate to the “Playback” Tab, then to the “Advanced Tab”. Within that tab select the last option (TimeCode Server allowing external programs to retrieve media info).
Next, while still in the “Playback” Tab, navigate to the “Video Paths” tab. Select “DirectShow”.

Use:
You no longer need to operate within the Script Player, just keep it minimized.
Just like normal script use, all videos must be in the same folder as their scripts and named identically.
Within whirligig, navigate to your scripted videos folder. It will only display the video’s in the menu, however ScriptPlayer will still see the scripts.
Select your video and enjoy!

Use with other script players:
I have no used any other players, but I would assume if they have the option to port to Whirligig built in, it should work just the same.

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@MasterChief0093 did you find the time to upload your scripted videos? :slight_smile:

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Just so everyone is aware. I’ve had an incident that lost all of my data. So I’ll be starting over from scratch.

Basically my PC’s that were next to each other (one was the NAS and the other the main rig) were damaged beyond recovery, including the drives.

I bring this up to make sure everyone is aware that a backup is not a local device. I made this mistake, and hopefully you can correct yourself while you have time. I lost 2TB of HMV’s (file sizes were huge due to 4k upscaling and 3D conversions). A real back up is a separate offsite drive. Get an external drive that can hold your data and stash it somewhere other than your home. And just update it once a week to once a month.

I’m down to Steam Deck only and currently looking into how to run the upscale and 3D conversion programs on Linux. I honestly prefer Linux and foresee Linux being the main OS in the future due to SteamOS.

Hopefully my work with this will pioneer the future of Linux with this site.

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Great news… I figured out how to use proton to run BOTH programs I use. One for the resolution/fps upscale and the 3D conversions. I’ll soon be starting up on the conversions. I have a Mega account I will be making available once I get the library really going.

I’ve also make instruction manuals for how to get them working with Proton through Steam. None of it requires knowing coding or commands. It’s all GUI based instructions.

Once I finish the instruction manuals and have tested all the functions I’ll be making a separate post with links to those instructions. I’ll also post the link to that post here.

I’m also going to test a few different script players using Proton to find out which ones work with Steam Deck. The reason this is important is because Valve is going to be releasing more than just the Steam Deck in the future. Within the next year or two you’ll be able to buy PC’s that come loaded with SteamOS from the shelf. Linux is going to be more mainstream and common. And I hope my guides help not only users but those making the software. Often times it just requires using proton and nothing complicated.

I’ll make a separate post tomorrow for software creators on how to use Proton to make your stuff work on Linux. You don’t have to completely start from scratch. It’s just minor tweaking.

I’ll post one video that’s upscaled in resolution and FPS and it’s 3D conversion later today so you can see what can been done just using something as simple as the Steam Deck.

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