3D

The intention of this page is to describe how to use VLC to watch 3D video.

3D Display Technologies

Generally there are three widely use 3D display technologies, all based on the principles of stereoscopic projection:

Anaglyph - red/green or red/blue images with glasses filtering out one colour or the other
Polarisation - technique used in cinemas, with two images projected with different polarisations, a silvered screen and polarised glasses
Also TV sets are capable of producing polarized light; they use interlaced displays for the left and right pictures, the even lines and the odd lines differently polarized (which effectively halves the vertical resolution in 3D mode)
Shutter Glasses - technique used by the new 3D televisions, where each alternating frame represent the left or right views.

VLC since 2.1.0 has built-in support for viewing 3D side-by-side (SBS) videos using anaglyph technology.

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