TriDef 3D Media Player

With TriDef 3D Media Player you can:

• Play TriDef 3D format files including TriDef 3D Movies and TriDef 3D Photos
• Watch standard definition 2D DVDs in amazing high impact 3D
• Play 3Di DVDs
• Play a wide variety of open format 3D media files (.mpg, .jpg, etc)
• Play your own 2D media files (.mpg, .jpg, etc) in 3D

Simply insert a DVD and choose “Play DVD Movie in 3D”, or right-click a supported media file in Windows Explorer and choose “Play with TriDef 3D Media Player”.

You can also run TriDef 3D Media Player from:

Start → All Programs → TriDef 3D → TriDef 3D Media Player.

Alternatively, click the browse thumbnail on the 3D Videos or 3D Photos page of TriDef 3D Portal.

Controls

Move your mouse to the bottom or top of the screen for access to these controls.

1. Back
2. Open File
3. 3D File Format
4. Toggle playback repeat mode^[1]
5. Previous Item/Chapter
6. Movie Progress/Seek Bar
7. Toggle Play/Pause
8. Next Item/Chapter
9. Adjust volume, toggle mute/unmute (popup slider)
10. Adjust 3D Scene Depth (popup slider)
11. Adjust Percent In Front (popup slider)
12. Minimize Window
13. Switch to Windowed Mode
14. Exit
15. Pin/unpin control bar

[1] The available options for playback repeat mode are:

Icon	Mode
	Play All Files
	Repeat Single File
	Repeat All Files
	Play Single File

DVD Playback

To play a DVD, simply insert it in the DVD drive and choose “Play DVD Movie in 3D” (the AutoPlay dialog may take a few moments to appear).

Alternatively, choose “Watch a DVD in 3D” from TriDef 3D Portal or press F4 from within TriDef 3D Media Player.

If the “Browse for Folder” dialog box appears, select your DVD drive.

For 3Di DVDs, change the DVD Input Type to “3Di (Left)” or “3Di (Right)” by pressing the “D” key.

See the DVD Navigation section below for a list of DVD shortcuts keys.

Supported Media Files

TriDef 3D Media Player supports a broad range of popular photo and video file formats. 2D files will automatically be played in 3D. 3D files may require renaming (see 3D File Formats). The following formats are supported under Windows 7:

Note: Support for certain media formats may be limited under Windows Vista and Windows XP. Media formats such as AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG Program Stream, ASF, MPEG-4 and 3GP can contain video or audio streams that are not supported natively by the Windows operating system. In the event that TriDef 3D Media Player cannot play a particular video file it may be necessary to install additional codecs on your system.

If appropriate DirectShow filters are installed additional video formats can be supported, including, but not limited to:

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

3D

Media Navigation

DVD Navigation

Auto 3D

Basic Zoom Controls

These zooms all relate to the contents of the window (ie, they are relative to the image/video’s original resolution).

The scroll wheel will zoom in/out about the current mouse cursor position. So, place the mouse cursor over a region of interest (eg, a person’s face), then use the scroll wheel to zoom in on that region.

Zooming with +,- will always zoom about the centre of the content.

Holding down the Ctrl key with any of the above (except “/”) will resize the window to fit around the content.

Holding down the Shift key with the above will ‘lock’ the zoom until another zoom action is performed (normally the zoom is not locked, resulting in the next image/video fitting to window by default)

The zoom levels referred to above (for +,-) are 1%, 2%, 4%, 6.3%, 8.3%, 12.5%, 16.7%, 25%, 33.3%, 50%, 66.7%, 100%, 150%, 200%, 300%, 400%, 600%, 800%, 1200%, 1600%, 2400%, 3200%, 4800%, 6400%.

In addition to these, the zoom level that would result in the contents fitting the window is also dynamically added to this list. For example if zooming the source to 110% would fit the window, then the list is … 100%, 110%, 150%…

Press Shift+I to show the Advanced Information panel. The “Zoom” entry on this panel shows the content’s current zoom level.

Pan Controls

Double-clicking the middle mouse button will return the content to its original position (ie, centred and fitted to the window)

Additional Zoom Controls

Window Resizing Controls

When resizing the window using the mouse, hold down the Alt key to resize the window about its centre. Hold down the Ctrl key to lock the window aspect ratio to that of the content (and fit the content to the window). Holding down Ctrl and Alt will do both of these simultaneously.