To install the universal 3D media player realityplayer, just double-click on the in- staller executable realityplayer_setup.exe and follow the usual procedure to in- stall programs on your system. This will create a program group and a desktop-icon. The installer will also associate .rf3d playlist files with the realityplayer.
If you encounter performance problems such as juddering refresh, you might either consider choosing less demanding display-options or using a more powerful machine. If in doubt contact our technical support: support@realitfabrik.com.
Mediatypes
If you are in doubt which 3D media file format is the approproiate playback choice, try to play back your material first in standard 2D mode. Compare the output with the following examples and choose the one matching your display.
- 2D
Use this media-type for playing back usual 2D-material. - D-Map 1-Channel, horizontal
Use this mode for playing back most d-mapped single-channel material. If the material is encoded in this format you will see a full-color image on the right and a black-and-white image on the left.
- D-Map 1-Channel, vertical
Use this mode for playing back d-mapped single-channel material where the depth-map is under the full-color image when viewed in 2D-mode.
- D-Map 2-Channel
Use this mode for playing back d-mapped dual-channel material. If the material is encoded in this format you will see two full-color images on the right and two black and white depth-images on the left. - 5-Tile
Use this mode for playing back 3D material encoded in 5 image-tiles. If the ma- terial is encoded in this format you will see four full-color image-tiles and a fifth one split in half on the bottom of the 2D-image. - 8-Tile
Use this mode for playing back 3D material encoded in 8 image-tiles. If the ma- terial is encoded in this format you will see six full-color image-tiles and the seventh and the eighth one split in half on the bottom of the 2D-image.
- 9-Tile
Use this mode for playing back 3D material encoded in 9 image-tiles. If the material is encoded in this format you will see nine full-color image-tiles. - Multistream
Use this mode for playing back 3D material where the 3D-channels have been encoded as multiple streams in the container-file.
Multistream media content is displayed in 2D as a vertical strip of images. The number of vertically stacked channels is arbitrary. The figure below shows a case with 4 channels but expect usually higher numbers of channels to be present in multistream data (8 or 9). The realityplayer automatically adapts to the number of available channels.