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I've done multiple searching but I'm not really finding documentation on how to get XBMC Gotham A7 to detect 3D rips (H-SBS) and tag them.
If I view a h-sbs movie, and manually force xbmc into sbs mode, everything works as intended, however, it doesn't seem to detect 3D movies.
From the press release for August build:
" First, while XBMC should automatically recognize 3D-encoded movies, if it fails to recognize the format, users can force 3D mode."
So, do I need to do something with the file name or folder ? Do I need to add a tag in a .nfo file ? Can I manually go through the movie list and just press a hotkey to tag it as 3D ?
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JCole
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Thanks for the tip. I went through and added "3DSBS" to the end of the filename and foldername for all movies in hsbs format.
Now xbmc detects that it's a hsbs movie and asks if I want to view it in SBS mode, however, it doesn't offer any sort of 3D tag or icon. I wonder if it's due to me keeping my roaming profile from XBMC Frodo. Perhaps if I do a full fresh reinstall it will fix it.
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JCole
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Hrmm, OK, did a full reinstall and I'm still not getting any 3D indicator. It tells me it's 1080p, DTS etc, but no 3D marker. Ideas ?
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scudlee
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From what I can tell the only boolean condition available to skins is "VideoPlayer.IsStereoscopic" which is only available when the video is playing (and is presumably used for displaying the 3D button on the OSD).
Someone would need to add an equivalent "ListItem.IsStereoscopic" condition for it to be used to add a 3D flag in the various Views, I think. Not sure how easy/hard that would be (I looked but couldn't figure it out).
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I'm having the same issue with Beta 1. I had this working in an earlier alpha build. I did a complete uninstall of XBMC, to include removing my userdata folder. My 3D movies, for example: "Avatar 3DSBS.mkv" are not being recognized by XBMC as stereoscopic. Is anyone else having an issue with the Beta?
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nickr
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What do you mean "not recognized" ?
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I made a post to help people with this. I got 3d detection with a naming scheme of moviename(year).3d.hsbs.mkv.
Note the multiple dots. Xbmc wouldn't detect 3d for me until I added the .3d.hsbs tag.of course, if you rip top and bottom, it would be .3d.htab
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OK because you could have been stating that it isn't marked as 3D in the movie listing, which is a slightly different issue.
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Kib
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People are mistaking two things for the same here.
1) there are tags that influence how Xbmc plays video. These tags are XBMC version dependant.
2) there are tags that influence how skins display video files. These tags are skin dependant.