[Warner306]

Hi everyone,
I have been trying for some time to get the playback of my 3D MVC MKV files working. I ripped 3D Blu-Rays with MakeMKV and I am trying to play them on my Beamer Side-By-Side.
A test version of the "Stereoscopic Player" worked.
But I would really like it to be integrated in KODI.

So I found this KODI variant with the DSPlayer which uses the LAV filters and MADVR. I installed all the latest versions yesterday and found that it works.
When I start a mvc mkv file the user interface switches to Side-By-Side mode and shows everything doubled next to each other. When I then switch the beamer to SBS the 3D works perfectly.
But, this works only as long as there is some part of the user interface visible.
For example if I show the the seek bar or the info screen or if I just move the mouse course, the image for both eyes are there. But when the user interface vanishes the left eye goes black.
When I tip the mouse both eyes are working again, after 3 seconds the mouse course vanished and so does the left image.

Has anyone come across something like this? Any ideas where this comes from?
Has anyone managed to play 3D MVC MKV files in KODI?

I would be grateful for any help.

This must be a limitation of DSPlayer. 3D support was added after aracnoz left. I didn't experience this when the output was set to "auto" with an active 3D display that supports frame-packed Blu-ray.

If the GUI is breaking 3D playback, I would try using MPC-HC instead. MPC-HC has ongoing development support and DSPlayer does not.

To do this, you must create the following file:

<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="MPC-HC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files\MPC-HC\mpc-hc.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" /fullscreen /close</args>
<hidexbmc>false</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>false</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
<playcountminimumtime>1140</playcountminimumtime>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule filename=".*3D.*" player="MPC-HC" />
</rule>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

For this to function, you must add "3D" to the filename of each 3D video.

To create this file, copy and paste the text above into Notepad or Notepad++ and save the document as playercorefactory.xml. The resulting .xml must be stored in the userdata folder located at:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata

MPC-HC set up is covered here: 1843510 (post).