PowerDVD can't enable HDMI 1.4 3D unless nVidia stereo 3D enabled?

tHE uKER

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Aug 14, 2011 21:24

Well, basically what the title says.
Even having selected HDMI 1.4 as the 3D format, if I disable 3D in the nVidia control panel, whenever I try to enable 3D in PowerDVD, it says "media or device don't support this format" or something to that effect.

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CyberLink-Michael

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Aug 15, 2011 12:55

H,

can you please describe your issue a little bit more detailed?

Is the playback OK when enable the 3D nVidia CP?

BR
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tHE uKER

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Aug 15, 2011 13:36

Yes, with 3D Vision enabled in the control panel (the top checkbox), PowerDVD works fine with both the nVidia 3D Vision and all three HDMI 1.4 modes.

However, if you disable 3D Vision, it all stops working, including the HDMI 1.4 modes, which one would expect to remain unaffected.

On a side note, (I don't know if I should report it here or open a new topic), I often have a problem where, when watching SBS 3D videos, when I enable 3D PowerDVD switches the TV to 3D mode, but I still see the SBS picture, IE both halves of the image don't get unified into 3D.

Getting out of this situation is a hit 'n miss. Sometimes getting out of and back into 3D mode fixes it. Sometimes I have to stop the playback and resume, and sometimes I need to restart PowerDVD altogether.
Unfortunately, I can't indicate exactly how to reproduce the issue.

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CyberLink-Michael

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Aug 16, 2011 03:12

Hi,

first of all thanks for the report - I will need to check with some colleagues to see if the NV driver behaviour is known behaviour or issue.

about the 3D playback problem - we can handle it here as well

can you provide samplesof the SbS movie, without violating any copyright?

Br
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Rune Rum

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Aug 16, 2011 16:46

i have to manualy set my tv to SBS to watch SBS from my pc, as the tv do not auto detect it from the pc.

allso you should be able to watch sbs with any mediaplayer

i got a panasonic vt30

tHE uKER

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Aug 16, 2011 19:15

Michael: I'd disregard the SBS thing for the time being. Come to think about it, it's probably PowerDVD failing to autodetect the video as a SBS source and probably trying to make a 2D-3D conversion. In any case, I'll try to diagnose it whenever I come across the issue again.

Rune Rum: I appreciate your willingness to help, but I have no problems watching SBS. I could as well copy the video on a USB stick and do without PowerDVD altogether. In any case, PowerDVD works fine 90% of the time. The point here is to get PowerDVD to work right. But thanks anyway.