Dimenco 3D Player – User Manual
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1. Dimenco 3D Player User Manual DIMENCO Document information INFO CONTENT Title Dimenco 3D Player User Manual Date 2 21 2011 6 10 PM Security The attached material and the information contained herein are proprietary to Dimenco Copying reproduction adaptation modification or dissemination in whole or part is not permitted without written permission from Dimenco Contact Dimenco address High Tech Campus 9 5656 AE Eindhoven The Netherlands E mail support support dimenco eu E mail general info dimenco eu Website www dimenco eu 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V a DIMENCO 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO Table of contents 1 INTO CUCU ele BEE 2 installation EE LA 3 1 Playing multiple tiles cetocinaan oaea anae aaaea a a E EAEE EE EEEE 3 2 BEST TEE SilulelEREgite e lEE CUTE 4 5 6 SpecialiFile EES EE KAS ee ll EE 8 Troubleshooting circadiano aaa Edi iia 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V Using Dim nco EIER a DIMENCO 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO 1 Introduction The Dimenco 3D Player is an application developed by Dimenco to play 3D video clips on a PC The 3D files that can be played have the extension b3d or s3d These are respectively 3D bitmaps and signage 3D movies The Dimenco 3D Player can also show normal 2D content Therefore you can use the Dimenco 3D P2. 7 16 DIMENCO At the top of the Ul is the play list This list contains the names of all files that will be played in the order they are listed The buttons next to this list allow for adding files removing files from the list and modifying the order of the list Note that the file dialog that appears when you press the Add button allows you to select multiple files you can do this by holding the shift or ctrl keys when selecting a file Additionally the Ul supports drag and drop you can drag files from the Windows Explorer to the UI and they will be added to the list Note that dragging files to other positions in the list is currently not supported The row of buttons on the lower right gives access to generic player functionality the most important one is Play The meaning of these buttons is Play Exit Defaults Make Shortcut Save Playlist Load Playlist Add Playlist About 8 16 Play the current play list Note that after playing the list the player will exit and the play list will be lost Exit the player The current play list will not be saved This button gives access to the default player settings dialog The default settings will be saved in the Windows registry so they will affect future operation of the Dimenco 3D Player The settings that you select in this dialog will be used if you don t override them explicitly The settings themselves have the same meaning
3. as in the main dialog and their explanation can be found in this chapter This button will save the current play list in a shortcut which can be placed on the desktop if you want to Note that a shortcut has a limit of 255 characters so if the play list is larger the shortcut will use a helper file to store the information If you copy the shortcut to a different system you should be aware that this helper file must also be copied and if you want to place it in a different directory you must also adapt the shortcut This button will save the play list to a text file with the default extension 3dpl Such a text file can be loaded later the next two buttons or played via the command line Dimenco3DPlayer lt play list name gt This button will clear out the current play list if any and load a new one from disk This button will add a play list from disk and add it at the end of the current play list This button will bring up the about box The about box contains the version number of the Dimenco 3D Player and a list of the command line options 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO In the middle left is a box with file specific options These options are valid only for the current file All options have corresponding command line options see chapter 3 The options are e Filetype o Signage 3D content The file contains signage emphasis on depth 3D content This is the default for files with an s3d
4. contain the major and minor version number The rest is auxiliary information 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V 13 16 DIMENCO 8 Troubleshooting Problem Solution Problem Solution 14 16 The taskbar stays on top of the Dimenco 3D Player during playback Open the Taskbar and Start Menu properties dialog by right clicking on the taskbar and selecting properties Make sure the checkbox before Keep the taskbar on top of other windows is unchecked Press OK to apply any changes Taskbar and Start Menu Properties Taskbar Start Menu Taskbar appearance Welcome Show Quick Launch Notification area ES e 1 23 PM Show the clock You can keep the notification area uncluttered by hiding icons that you have not clicked recently C Hide inactive icons The Dimenco 3D Player does not start the playback of the video file but shows Fatal error Cannot play file Probably a proper audio or video decoder is missing or Not all media streams can be displayed Probably an audio or video decoder is missing The player will show as much as possible The cause for these messages is that one of the decoders needed to playback the file is not available on your system Make sure that your system contains the right video decoder filter to playback the video sequence If audio is present also the proper audio decoder filter should be installed on your system The second messag
5. installed all required decoders for your audio content Ignore errors When this option is enabled the player will not display a dialog and abort when it cannot start playing a file It will quietly ignore the file that it cannot play In the lower right is a text box that contains the command line that represents the play list Executing that command line would produce the same result as pressing the Play button This command line is useful for copy amp paste first select the text and copy it with Ctrl C you can paste the text into a batch file Of course you can also use it to get more insight into how the command line options work Above the edit box is the option Include default settings as parameters Enabling this option will cause the options that are equal to their defaults to be added The result is that the play list will always play the same way even if you change player defaults later 10 16 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO 5 Keyboard shortcuts While the Dimenco 3D Player is playing content these keys can be used Escape Stop the player Space Toggle between pause and continue the player Right arrow Go to the next file in the play list If it is the last file the player will stop or continue with the next loop whichever is applicable Left arrow Go to the previous file in the play list 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V 11 16 DIMENCO 6 Special File Ex
6. or b3d extension o 2D content The file contains 2D content This is the default for all other files e Declipse Declipse technology allows for looking around objects but of course the content must contain Declipse information o Use default Declipse setting The player will automatically determine if declipse information is present The only reason why this would ever fail is if a content creator made very special content o Force Declipse on The player will assume that Declipse information is present This option is only needed if the automatic detection fails and should rarely be needed o Force Declipse off The player will assume that Declipse information is not present This option is only needed if the automatic detection fails and should rarely be needed o Ignore Declipse information The player will assume that Declipse information is present but it will not use it useful for demonstrations e Scaling 3D displays are available in both 16 9 and 4 3 aspect ratio It is recommended to always use content created specifically for a specific 3D display However the Dimenco 3D Player can scale content so it can be shown on a display that it was not created for This will always lead to a trade off between aspect ratio and black bars These options let you determine which solution is best for your content o Stretch to full screen The content will occupy the full screen This may cause the content to become wider or tall
7. you play content that has audio that requires a decoder that is not available on the system the player will give a warning If you specify the ignoreaudio option this warning will be skipped If the content cannot be played for any reason the player will display an error dialog and exit While this behavior makes perfect sense when an operator is using the player this is not desirable when the player is running unattended You can specify the ignoreerror option and the player will recover from the error and skip the file that could not be played No warning dialog will be displayed By default the Dimenco 3D Player uses the standard Windows component such as used by the Windows Media Player for displaying video data it has the option renderwin That component is fast when hardware acceleration from the graphics card is available However that component can show performance issues without hardware acceleration For that situation the Dimenco 3D Player provides an alternative component for displaying the video data This component has low overhead and uses special buffering techniques to provide better playback performance than the standard Windows component The use of this component can be forced by adding the option renderAlt Because the special display component uses buffering it is beneficial to pause the video file a short time before it starts This allows the component to buffer a few frames so it can prevent hick ups during playb
8. ack e g caused by other applications needing some processor time By default this pause is 100ms You can change this pause with the startpause lt x gt option where lt x gt is the pause in milliseconds A pause longer than 1000ms is not beneficial The standard Windows component does not benefit from this pause so for that component the pause is Oms by default Note that the total pause between two video files or repeats of the same file depends on a lot more factors e g determining the file type and loading decoders In general a short pause is not noticeable 4 16 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO The Dimenco 3D Player has been tested extensively for stability However it uses software components from other parties including Microsoft It has been shown that those components can cause system instability over time This may take a while typically days but it is prudent to restart the Dimenco 3D Player regularly The Dimenco 3D Player itself also has two options to facilitate restarting restart lt nr files gt and restarttime lt hour gt These options only work in combination with the loop option For restart lt nr files gt the player will restart after lt nr files gt video files have been played though if a play list with multiple files is given the play list is finished first For restarttime lt hour gt the player will restart at a certain hour every day 0 would typically be a good hour to
9. e setlog option does not need to be specified every time you start the player Ifyou want to stop the logging use setlog without any file name 6 16 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO 4 Simple user interface Because programming a play list on the command line is cumbersome for some people the Dimenco 3D Player also supports a user interface that is used mainly to create play lists This user interface will come up if there are no command line parameters for the player e g when you double click on the player icon or if you add the help option in that case all other parameters you supplied are loaded in the user interface Dimenco 3D Player Add Hl Global settings Looping O Play forever C Play once C Play 0 times a Render display O e Display on primary display O C Display on 3D Display 1 o Restarting only on Play forever e Restartafter 0 files e Restartat 0 hour E Cc gt Ignore audio warnings Add Playlist e Ignore errors e Current settings as command line Copy amp Paste is possible Include default settings as parameters Defaults Dimenco3DPlayer primary A Exit Figure 2 User interface for the Dimenco 3D Player Figure 2 shows the Dimenco 3D Player user interface UI Note that this interface is designed for use on a 2D display On a 3D display the UI will use a larger font 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V
10. e can happen if the video can be decoded but the audio cannot In that case the player will play the video without audio 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO Problem Solution Problem Solution Problem Solution Problem Solution Problem Solution The Dimenco 3D Player does not start the playback of the video file but shows some error message There may be a number of problems Sometimes the error message gives sufficient clues Frequent causes are that the system does not have Windows XP Service Pack 2 installed or does not have one of the graphics cards required There may also be compatibility problems with the decoding filters that are installed on the system this often happens with Mpeg 2 decoders The video plays but often skips halts The most frequent reason for this to happen is that the PC is not powerful enough for the content e g Windows Media Format requires a powerful PC If the problem does not happen consistently but rarely it may be that a background application is interfering You can also try de fragmenting your hard disk and do not play content from a CD or network drive It may be that changing the video playback component solves the problem see the renderAlt renderWin options in chapter 3 The top and bottom of the video are not visible or there are black bars at the top and bottom of the screen This is because there is an aspect ratio conflict betwe
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12. eded to start playing the content which involves tasks like determining the 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V 9 16 DIMENCO content type and loading decoders which take far longer The pause does enable the playback to start smoothly for the alternative renderer In the middle of the UI is a box with global settings which hold for the entire play list Looping This will cause the play list to be repeated when it has finished The choices for this option are self explanatory the default is play forever Render display By default the Dimenco 3D Player will show the content on the 3D display In some cases you may want to change this behavior and you can force the player to use the primary display If multiple 3D displays are connected to the system pressing the 3D display x button will cycle through the available 3D displays Note that if no 3D displays are available in your system only the Display on primary display radio button is enabled Restarting Because the player uses some third party software the stability cannot be guaranteed Therefore there are options that allow the player to restart itself at some point restarting will make the standard Windows desktop visible for a few seconds See chapter 3 for more explanation Ignore audio settings When this option is enabled the player will not give a warning if it cannot play back the audio component of the content This is only relevant if you have not
13. en the screen and the video The option stretch will solve the problem but the content may be stretched out of proportion The video file contains depth data but it is shown in 2D the color data is shown on the left and the depth data on the right One reason may be that the player does not recognize the file as a 3D data e g it has the wmv extension See chapter 3 and the signage option During playback the display switches often from 2D to 3D and back This can be caused by the Antialiasing settings of the video driver Use the video card driver to set the Antialiasing settings to application controlled or off 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V 15 16 DIMENCO Problem Solution 16 16 The User Interface window is too big for the display The Dimenco 3D Player assumes a display size of at least 1280x1024 If your primary display has a smaller size and you need to use the User Interface you can dragitto the 3D display as that display is large enough When a 3D display is the primary display the user interface is made bigger for easier reading If the UI doesn t fit on the 3D display it may be that a Windows setting makes the fonts bigger The user interface on a 3D screen still fits with fonts scaled to 125 but not larger Windows7 Go to Control Panel Appearance and Personalization Screen Resolutions Make text and other items larger or smaller and decrease the scaling 0 0 0 0 0 21 F
14. er For some content e g text this is hardly noticeable while for other content e g faces this is unacceptable o Keep aspect ratio The aspect ratio of the content will be preserved The content will also be stretched horizontally to full screen since black bars on the left and right of the screen look terrible For 16 9 content on a 4 3 display this will cause black bars while for 4 3 content on a 16 9 display this will cause some content to fall off the display When this option is selected you also have some control over the black bars or cut off content see chapter 3 the yposition option for more explanation o Custom Stretch The content will be scaled to the given display coordinates It is allowed to specify coordinates that are outside the display which will cause a part of the content to be displayed e Use alternative renderer This option enables special displaying component that has better performance than the standard Microsoft based displaying component See chapter 3 for more information e Timeout This option will cause the content to be stopped after the given amount of seconds The time is content based so the time out will always happen at the same place in the content pausing the content will also pause the timeout e Pause before playing This option will pause the content for a short while before it starts This short pause is rarely noticeable because it is addition to the time that is ne
15. fill in By default the Dimenco 3D Player will look for the 3D display and play the video on it If it cannot find the 3D display or if the primary command line option is used it will play the video on the primary display it is possible to make this the default behavior and then the noprimary option will switch to the 3D display If you have a system with multiple 3D displays connected the display x with x starting at 1 will select the 3D display that the player will use 3 1 Playing multiple files It is possible to play multiple files in a row You can do this by just listing the files next to each other on the command line Dimenco3DPlayer a s3d b s3d will first play a s3d and then continue with b s3d There are a number of command line options that change the way a video file is played e g normal signage declipse nodeclipse keepaspect stretch yposition These options can differ per file The rule is that any option that is given before the first file name holds for every file while other options only hold for the file that was given before the option E g Dimenco3DPlayer stretch a s3d b s3d keepaspect c v3d will first play a v3d stretched to full screen Then it will play b s3d at the correct aspect ratio keepaspect overrides stretch Then it will play c v3d stretched to full screen the stretch still holds for this file as the keepaspect only holds for b s3d Note that the loop option is alway
16. layer in a sequence that contains both 3D and 2D video files The Dimenco 3D Player has limited play list capability It is able to show several files in a sequence and or in a loop It also has some support to create those play lists The latest Dimenco 3D Player and user manual can be downloaded from our website www dimenco eu 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V 1 16 DIMENCO 2 Installation The Dimenco 3D Player is installed by running the Installer executable provided By default the player will be associated with the 3D content types so they can be double clicked for playback 3D content will usually be encoded in the Windows Media Format recommended by Dimenco Encoders and decoders for this format are available on your system provided you have Windows XP SP2 or later as is required for the Dimenco 3D Player But content creators can choose to encode the content using other encoders To enable playback of these video files an appropriate decoder should be installed on your system E g mpeg 2 is a popular format for content creators but a standard system will not have an mpeg 2 decoder installed note that installing DVD playback software will almost always install one The Dimenco 3D Player will warn you when you try to play back content for which an appropriate decoder is not installed 2 16 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO 3 Using Dimenco 3D Player The easiest way to play a 3D video file is t
17. o double click it in the Windows Explorer However this method does not give you the capability to set options For that you can either use the Simple User Interface see Chapter 4 or you can use the command line to invoke the player note that Windows gives you a lot of alternate options to the command line such as shortcuts To play a video file using the Dimenco 3D Player you just give the video file as argument to the program Note that you can start a command line prompt via Start gt Run gt cmd E EM C Windows system32 cmd exe O e C Program Files lt x86 DimencoNDimenco 3D Player gt Dimenco3DPlayer exe BigBuckBunny s3d Figure 1 Starting the Dimenco 3D Player from the command line The Dimenco 3D Player will maintain the aspect ratio of the video based on square pixels This behavior can be overridden with the stretch option which will scale the video to full screen it is possible to make this the default behavior and then the keepaspect option will switch to maintaining aspect ratio see also chapter 4 The video will always span the full width of the screen as black bars on the side will cause 3D artefacts This may cause the top and bottom of the video to be cut off Some extra control over this can be gained with the yposition lt x gt option It is also possible to specify a custom stretch with the scale lt x0 y0 x1 y1 gt option The Dimenco 3D Player supports video l
18. ooping Adding the option loop as a program argument will let the player continuously loop the video file Adding the option loop lt nr gt will repeat the video file lt nr gt times Repeating video files can still be interrupted with the escape key The Dimenco 3D Player will determine the type of content from the file extension You can also override the extension of the content file Adding the options signage or normal will treat the file as if it were signage content or 2D content file respectively 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V 3 16 DIMENCO The player will automatically detect if a 3D video file contains de occlusion information the declipse feature This detection can also be overridden with the declipse and nodeclipse command line options The option ignoredeclipse will instruct the player to play a video file with declipse information it should not be used on files without declipse information but to ignore that information This may be useful for demo purposes as it will allow you to see what the visual improvements of declipse information are If you want to show a video file for a limited time only you can use the timeout lt timeout in seconds gt option This will stop the playback of the video file after the given timeout Note that the timeout refers to a time related to the content 10 means 10 seconds into the video file This means that ifyou pause the player the timeout will pause as well If
19. s global If you want to repeat one file multiple times you have to list that file multiple times The loop option will loop the entire list of files Because command lines can become very long if a long list of files is played it is also possible to use lt file name gt or lt file name gt on the command line This means that the content of the text file lt file name gt is treated as if it were typed on the command line This allows for very simple playlists Files with the extension 3dpl will be treated as playlists by default and do not need the O or prefix 3 2 Usage logging In some situations you want to know what files were played by the player and at what time The player supports logging features for this The logging features can only be enabled via the command One notable example is playing DivX files with Mpeg 2 audio while certain versions of the Elecard Mpeg 2 decoder are installed This will play back the content fine but after some repeats system stability will decrease with as most common result that the Dimenco 3D Player will give an error 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V 5 16 DIMENCO line This is done via the setlog lt file name gt option From then on all files that are played will be logged in the given file The player will always add to that file This option is special because it needs to be configured only once and from then on the player will always use the same logging file So th
20. tensions Files using the extensions s3d are played using the signage settings of the 3D Display This means that maximum depth impression is given The viewing experience has some angles where it is extreme helping to attract people to your content Bitmaps using the extension b3d are also played with the signage settings of the 3D display These extensions make sure that the Dimenco 3D Player sets the 3D Display to the correct settings The s3d files are usually files containing a Windows Media Format stream though content creators may choose a different format The video stream contains the image on the left and depth on the right side by side b3d files are bitmap files that contain the image on the left and depth on the right side by side 12 16 21 February 2011 2010 2011 Dimenco B V DIMENCO 7 Version Number Starting the application with command Dimenco3DPlayer results in the Dimenco 3D Player user interface see chapter 4 This UI contains an About button If you press this button the about box will appear and this contains the version number l About Dimenco 3D Player ER Dimenco 30 ayer v1 3 11021199a Copyright OZOTT All Rights Reserved Usage Dimenco3DPlayer options lt filename gt file options lt filename gt file options supported options file options marked with loop lt nr gt Play the file s lt nr gt times indefinitely if lt nr gt is O or omi
21. tted primary Always play on the primary display noprimary Play on the 3D display display lt x gt Play on 3D display number lt x gt restart lt x gt Restart after playing lt x gt files restarttime lt x gt Restart after hour lt x gt every day ignoreaudio Suppress warning for audio decoder ignoreerror Suppress error dialogs and skip the file setlog lt x gt Start logging to file lt x gt This setting is also used the next time the player is started renderAlt default Use the fast rendering component renderWin Use the Windows rendering component signage Treat the file as signage content video Treat the file as video content declipse Treat the content as Declipse content nodeclipse Treat the content as non Declipse content ignoredeclipse _ Ignore the Declipse information normal Treat the file as non 3D content keepaspect default Preserve aspect ratio when stretching stretch Stretch video to use the full screen scale lt x0 y0 x1 y1 gt Stretch the video to the screen coordinates yposition lt x gt Position the video at a given line top middle bottom and line number allowed timeout lt nr gt Stop the file after lt nr gt seconds startpause lt x gt Pause lt x gt ms before playing the file Figure 3 The Dimenco 3D Player about box In this example the version number is 1 2 07110399a The first two numbers 1 2
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