Full SBS 3D

Yum

Thank you for reaching out.

Please go to Advanced Setting > 3D ADJUST > Full SBS Matching and turn on the button when you open a Full SBS video.
This should help correcting the aspect ratio of Full SBS videos.
Also please noticed that this setting will be memorised for individual movie. That is to say, next time you reopen a Full SBS movie which you set the "Full SBS Matching" before, the video should automatically display as the right aspect ratio.

Regarding the recognition on filename, sorry SKYBOX does not support it now.
But we are putting it into our feature request list and will discuss how we could develop such function.

Cheers.

peterjcat

Thanks for the reply.

This seems to change the aspect ratio of the image, but doesn't change the aspect ratio of the viewport -- so the virtual movie screen still has the aspect ratio of 3840 x 1920, and the movie image is no longer distorted but the top and bottom of the image are cut off (ie only the middle strip of the movie is visible)?

Yum

peterjcat

Sorry for the late reply.
I have tried different settings myself and find an answer for you:
Advanced Setting > Screen Adjust > Aspect Ratio > 16:9
Please try and see if it can fix the screen size.

If not, I really appreciate if you can share one Full SBS video with us at contact@skybox.xyz.

Thanks for your patience.

peterjcat

Hi, sorry for the delay. I can confirm that manually setting the aspect ratio to the true aspect ratio of the movie fixes the problem. However, it would be good if this could happen automatically and work for all aspect ratios, not just the ones listed (e.g. some movies are actually 2.4:1 rather than 2.35:1, or 1.85:1 rather than 16:9).

Do you still need a sample video?

Yum

peterjcat

Hi there,

If you could manually adjust the aspect ratio to the preferred one then there's no need to send the sample video.

Well we would like to automate this process in the later versions.
But we cannot promise a date to release this feature.
Right now we are a small team with many tasks on hand.

Thank you for your understanding.

alexend

Hi,

I'm having the same problem and even after I tried what you suggested, the image is still not correct. In my case, I'm using The Force Awakens in 3D. What is happing is that the black bars that are applied to the 3840x1080 file will mask a part of the image after enable full-sbs matching. Then forcing an aspect ratio like 2.35 is only stretching the image to reach the 2.35 ratio, but the portion of the image missing/hidden by the black bars originaly are still not visible.
Since this if a 24Gig mkv file I created from the original 3D bluray, I can't share it to you. But I think you can reproduce it on your side with a 2.35 movie, for example. (I think the Force Awakens is 2.40 actually)

alexend

To resume, in other words, when enabling the full sbs matching option, the aspect ratio seems correct. The problem are the top and bottom black bars that doesn't adjust themselves correctly.

Yum

alexend

Sorry for the late reply.
Would you please share a screenshot after you enabling the full SBS matching at contact@skybox.xyz?

Thank you and looking forward to your reply.

alexend

Hi Yum,

I'm really sorry, I deleted the files since then, so I can't right now. I will recreate the file and will let you know then. By the way, how to I take a screenshot from my Oculus?

GammaDev

Related to this, is there a naming scheme I can use that will correctly display Full SBS without having to manually select 16:9 EVERY SINGLE TIME I view a movie? I thought that Skybox was supposed to remember any manual changes the user made to the display options on a per-movie basis, but I always have to manually select 16:9 to get a Full SBS movie at the correct aspect ratio. Even when I return to a movie after going to the main menu (and Skybox offers to resume from the point I paused at) I still have to manually select 16:9. And sometimes 16:9 is already selected but the displayed aspect ratio is incorrect and I have to select "Default" and then "16:9" to get the aspect ratio correct again. If we could just settle on a naming convention like FSBS or FullSBS, then the lack of Skybox remembering would even be an issue. This is on the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest.
Thank you.

Yum

GammaDev

Are you watching videos via SMB/DLNA/AirScreen or from local storage please?

sometimes 16:9 is already selected but the displayed aspect ratio is incorrect and I have to select "Default" and then "16:9" to get the aspect ratio correct again.

This is a bug and we are working to fix it. Thank you for reporting it.

If we could just settle on a naming convention like FSBS or FullSBS, then the lack of Skybox remembering would even be an issue.

Are all your Full SBS videos could be displayed correctly by simply choosing aspect ratio of 16:9?
We have some videos that need to be adjusted by the "Full SBS matching" in the "3D ADJUST" to display correctly.
Could you please share with us one Full SBS video at contact@skybox.xyz so we could check?

Cheers.

GammaDev

Yum
Yes. Selecting 16:9 fixes everything, it's just annoying that I have to do it every single time I view 3D blu-ray rip.
This is over SMB (given the size of 3D videos, expect very few people to use local storage for full length movies).
The movies I use are generated by the very fine shareware app, bd3d2mk3d.
BTW, all my files are named in the format Name_SBS_1080p. If a movie is SBS (which Skybox correctly figures out from the filename), Skybox could look at the res and notice the format is always 3840x1080- then it is 99.99999% likely to be a blu-ray rip and should always be Full SBS with an aspect ratio of 16:9. Heck, if a SBS movie has an aspect of 32:9, it's >99% likely to be a 3d blu-ray rip and should be displayed at 16:9.

alexend

Hi, so I was able to take screenshot and send them to contact@skybox.xyz. That being said, it seems the behavior changed or I did something differently this time, because now I'm able to get a good picture if I DON'T ENABLE "full sbs matching".... and use the 16/9 aspect ratio. (Still using The Force Awakens for test)

Anyway, I took several screenshot with and without the setup display to show the different results.

Thanks for your support and check your email for the screenshots :-)

Yum

GammaDev

Sorry for the late reply.
We will definitely check this and see how we could improve this.
Thank you very much for your support and patience.

alexend

Sample video has been sent by email. Thank you for looking into it.

Yum

alexend

Got it :)
Thank you for the email!

bcoldi

When will this issue be resolved for Oculus Quest streaming?

GregZone

Hi. I'm a new user. I found this topic as this was my first issue on buying SkyBox for Quest 2 and trying it out. Very sad to see that "Full SBS Matching" remains un-fixed / still does not work. :(

I'm refering to 3D Blu-ray rips to Full SBS format to maximise visual quality. ie. 3840 x 1080 video (1920x1080 Left + Right).

As posted by others, my experience is:

Video initially plays as full 3840x1080 video with left & right images side by side. Each half is in the correct aspect ratio, making a screen wide, but half screen height image (ie. overall displayed image would be an aspect ratio of 32:9).
Selecting 3D SBS mode, renders a horizontally stretched 3D image (ie. left & right merged, but still rendered as the same half screen height 32:9 aspect ratio).
Going into Advanced and selecting the "Full SBS Matching" option corrects the horizontally stretched image (the content itself is now in the correct aspect ratio), but instead the top quarter and bottom quarter of the video are chopped off (ie. we are seeing a 32:9 letterboxed slot of the overall movie frame).
Going back into Advanced and overridding the Aspect Ratio to 16:9 appears to fix the issue, although I note "Full SBS Matching" is again de-selected (so presumably Full SBS rendering is no longer in effect).

With these new faster & higher resolution VR headsets, it would be nice to know that we can take full advantage of Full SBS source resolution and working with 1920x1080 per eye, and not scaling up from a crushed 960x1080 SBS render.

Of course, the ultimate end game solution would be support for 3D MVC source MKV files (to avoid needing to "Full SBS" convert them in the first place, and therefore retain the original source image quality).

If beta testing is needed for any improvements for handling these Full SBS (ie. 3840x1080) sources, I'm happy to test. :)

mancer

I made the exact same observations (though it feels as if the F-SBS file, with F-SBS disabled, looks slightly sharper than the regular SBS file I used to compare).
It would be really great if this could be fixed in the near future.