Oculus Cinema

Monday, February 6, 2017

Play MKV files on Gear VR with Galaxy Note 4

Presently lots of users prefer to download high definition videos from internet. Most of them are in MKV format. MKV is a flexible, open standard video file format which can store alternate audio tracks, multilingual subtitles and chapter points, as well as rich metadata authoring (including cover art, ratings, and descriptions) in one single file. This feature makes you play and watch MKV just as enjoy Blu-rays. In this article , I would like to show you a step by step guide on how to encode MKV for watching on Gear VR via Galayx Note 4 with zero quality loss.

Samsung Gear VR is a mobile virtual reality headset, on which you can play your own movies using the Oculus Cinema with brilliant immersive viewing experience. It supports a wide range of media formats including MKV files in 2D or 3D SBS(Side-by-Side) work on Gear VR, but the audio has to be encoded in AAC or MP3 for stereo. AC3 audio and DTS Dolby don't seem to work and this is why you often play MKV files on Gear VR with no sound found. In order to watch MKV on Gear VR with Galaxy Note 4, you just need a right program and convert MKV to 3D MP4 for smoothly playing on Gear VR via Galaxy Note 4.

Luckily, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (Mac)is just the right app that can help you to finish the task quickly and easily. This video converter has been proven to be an outstanding MKV video converter. With it, you can convert MKV to Gear VR compatible SBS 3D MP4/MKV effortlessly. In addition to MKV files, this program also allows you to watch 3D Blu-ray, 3D Blu-ray ISO, 3D AVI, 3D YouTube, 3D YIFY, etc on Gear VR via Samsung smartphpones nicely.

What's more, with the built-in editor, you can trim, crop, adjust special effect to your MKV video, so that you get the very part and effects at your will. If you are a Mac user, you can turn to Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate Mac (El Capitan, Yosemite included), which has the same function as the Windows version.

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Step 2. Decide output format

Tap on "Format" bar and find "3D Video", there are a lot of format options for you. "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" is recommended for Samsung Gear VR. Of course, "MKV Side-by-Side 3D video", "MOV Side-by-Side 3D video" are also supported.

Tip: Click Settings to adjust the parameters like video codec, video bitrate, video frame rate, audio sample rate, audio channel. 1920x1080 compressed side-by-side 3D should be resampled to 1920x540 resolution full side-by-side resolution.

Step 3. Start encoding MKV to Gear VR

Click "Start conversion" button to start converting MKV to Samsung Gear VR friendly 3D video. After the conversion, you can get the resulted videos by clicking the Open button.

After the conversion, you need to transfer the converted 3D movie to Galaxy Note 4 for playback with VR. Just refer to the following steps:

1. On your MicroSD card file directory, navigate to Oculus > Movies > Your Movies

2. Create a new folder in "Your Movies" and label it "3D"

3. Move your SBS 3D videos into your newly created "3D" folder

Once you have created your 3D content folder and imported compatible video files, insert your MicroSD card into your Galaxy Note 4, pair up the phone with your Gear VR, and put the virtual reality headset on your head. Then:

1. Navigate to Oculus Cinema from the main menu

2. Navigate to "My Videos" from the Oculus Cinema content library menu

3. Select the 3D video you want to watch (if you followed the above steps it should have a "3D" label in the upper righthand corner)

4. Choose the cinema mode to begin playback.

Now you can easily watch converted MKV videos on your Galaxy Note with Gear VR at home instead of going to cinema, or you can put them onto other 3D players for stunning playback. So nice!

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Source: http://gear-vr-help.jimdo.com/2015/09/08/play-mkv-on-gear-vr/

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Convert ISO to Compatible Format With PS3/PS4

Both PS3 and PS4 offer you almost everything ranging from hundreds of video games, a variety of add-ons and free-playable demos. Another feature is to play particular videos. Unfortunately, ISO is not supported by the two game consoles. The fact that it is not possible to play ISO on PS3/PS4 doesn't mean that you can never play your video in your PS3 or PS4. You can, however, play ISO on PS3/PS4 once you have converted ISO to PS3/PS4 compatible format.

Firstly we have a look at the PS3/PS4 supported formats:

MKV
Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
Audio: MP3, AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)

AVI
Visual: MPEG4 ASP, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
Audio: MP3, AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)

MP4
Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
Audio: AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)

MPEG-2 TS
Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2, MPEG2 Visual
Audio: MP2(MPEG2 Audio Layer 2), AAC LC, AC-3(Dolby Digital)
AVCHD: (.m2ts, .mts)

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To convert ISO to PS3/PS4 supported video formats, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is highly recommended. The program is a comprehensive tool that helps you to convert video files (like ISO, MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, VOB, DVD, Blu-ray) and audios (M4A/WAV/DTS/AAC/WMA/FLAC) into the specific video formats that are playable on the PS3, PS4, and popular devices like iPad, iPhone, Android, Xbox, Samsung TV and many more. It can meet your need of converting ISO videos to PS3/PS4 with original quality. With it, you can finish the task with only three steps. Before converting, you can crop, trim, add watermark or subtitles to the video if you want. If you're using a Mac, simple turn to the Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Mac(OS X El Capitan included), which has the same function as the Windows version. Here is the detailed guide on how to convert ISO to a fully compatible format with PS3/PS4.

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Step 2: Select the right formats for playing on PS4. Here we suggest you to go to the "PSP/PS3" list, you will get the "PS3 Video (1080P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)" as the best output.

Tip: In the "Settings" button, you can adjust video and audio settings, including codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel.

Step 3: Click the "start conversion" button; it will change ISO files to PS3/PS4 supported file type immediately. After the conversion, tap Open button to get the output videos ready to be added to PS3 or PS4 easily.

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Monday, January 23, 2017

YouTube Videos to AAC YouTube Converter

YouTube is now one of the most popular video-hosting services on the Internet, with visitor around the world watching over 6 billion hours of user-generated video every month. Downloading a YouTube video to your local hard drive is actually pretty easy once you know how, but what if you want to get sound out of the YouTube videos and save in .aac audio file in Mac or PC machine? Want an all-in-one YouTube to AAC Download and YouTube to AAC Converter that can download and convert YouTube videos and audios to AAC? If these are your aims, this is definitely the right place for you. The following passage is going to give an explanation about why converting YouTube to AAC and tell a step by step guide on how to convert YouTube to AAC with a powerful YouTube to AAC Converter.

Why Need to Convert YouTube to AAC on (Mac )?

AAC is a type of file standard for lossy digital audio compression. It is defined by the MPEG-2 standard and designed to be the successor of the most known audio format - MP3, and AAC generally produces higher-quality sound than MP3 at similar bit rates (128 kbps, 192 kbps, and 256 kbps, etc.). AAC is the default encoding used by YouTube, Apple iTunes, iOS players, DivX Plus Web Player, PS3 and others.

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Thanks to a vast array of applications, the conversion of YouTube to AAC (MPEG-4 audio) file is not only possible, but simple. Today I'll be showing you how to use the hot Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate (Mac ) to extract audio from YouTube to AAC format for both Mac and Windows, which is capable of converting a wide variety of media formats with excellent output quality to any audios like AAC, FLAC, MP3 etc from YouTube. With it, you can also convert YouTube to various audios, videos and some popular devices like PS3, PS4, Wii, PSP, Xbox Game Consoles, Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s/6s Plus, iPad Pro,Apple TV.

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Step 2. Set AAC as the Desired Format

To convert YouTube to AAC, choose AAC Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac) from "Common Audio" category from "Format" drop-down button. Here you can also select any audio formats like MP3 for more usages.

Step 3. Start Converting YouTube to AAC

Click "start conversion" button to finish YouTube to AAC conversion. When the conversion finishes, click "Open" to find the converted video files. Then you can effortless transfer the video files to your devices for easy playback. It is just that easy to convert YouTube to AAC. Don't you want to try this YouTube to AAC Converter right now?

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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Convert ISO images to Samsung Smart TV Smoothly

Samsung Smart TV give users the freedom to easily access and control favorite shows, movies, apps, streaming content and more. TV lovers love Samsung Smart TV more and more. Today many users choose to put movies on USB storage and play movies on Samsung TV via USB port. But it is a big pity that Samsung LED/LCD/3D/4K/Smart TV can't play ISO images directly due to the special formats or the large storage for video fans.

In fact, you need not worry. We here recommend Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. It can convert ISO images to Samsung Smart TV smoothly and it ensure that the converted movies have higher quality than the original files. Besides ISO, it also supports Blu-ray, DVD, ISO, MKV, H.265, RMVB, Tivo, MXF, FLV etc to Samsung TV, LG TV, Sony TV, 4K TV, 3D TV, and more TV supported formats.

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How to Encode ISO movies to Samsung Smrt TV supported video format from USB or NAS?

Step 1. Run this program and click the Add Files button to load your ISO files. The upload movies will show up as thumbnails, stacked up on each another in an organized manner. You can also rearrange the order, add plug-in subtitles or merge all the files into one, if necessary.

Step 2. Select Format > TVs > Samsung TV, select Samsung TV as the output format, this critical step is so simple without any thinking.

Tip: Before start the ISO conversion for Samsung Smart TV, you can click the Settings icon and adjust the video bitrate, codec, frame rate, audio sample rate, etc parameters.

Step 3. Hit the big green arrow convert button; this video converter will start to convert ISO to mp4 for playback on Samsung Smart TV.

After the conversion is over, connect the USB drive or NAS with computer and head to the destination folder where the converted files are stored, transfer the files to the Samsung TV. Enjoy your favorite ISO movies on Samsung TV with your family and friends.

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Monday, January 16, 2017

Blu-ray movies on QuickTime on Mac OS X El Capitan

What is the first media player on Mac OS X El Capitan? Quicktime will be the one. Not because it is bundled with Mac OS X, just in that it's powerful media technology that works on Mac OS X El Capitan with just about every popular video or audio format you come across. Its playable audio and video formats just like the same sheet:

Although QuickTime supports many video formats, as we all seen, Blu-ray is not in the list. So if you have many Blu-ray movies, no matter from your paid Blu-ray discs or downloaded from internet, how do you watch Blu-ray movies on QuickTime Mac OS X El Capitan?

Pavtube BDMagic for Mac is exactly designed for this problem. This Blu-ray to QuickTime converter enables you to rip and backup Blu-ray to QuickTime playable formats at ultra fast time with high video quality. What’s more, it is updated to support the Mac OS X El Capitan and Yosemite 10.10. So you can rip Blu-ray on your Mac OS X El Capitanand Mac Yosemite 10.10/10.9. It also can play Blu-ray movies of region A, region B and region C.

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How to rip Blu-ray to QuickTime playable format?

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies

Click the "Folder" icon on the top menu bar to load your Blu-ray disc to the program

Step 2: Choose QuickTime MOV format

Click "Format" bar, from its drop-down selection, define "MOV-QuickTime (*.mov)" as the output profile format.

Step 3: Start to rip Blu-ray to QuickTime

Start to rip Blu-ray to QuickTime format process on OS X El Capitan by hitting the right-bottom conversion button. When the conversion is done, locate the ripped Blu-ray in the output folder.

Now, you can freely enjoy your Blu-ray movies on QuickTime on Mac OS X El Capitan.

In addition, this Blu-ray Ripper actually can convert Blu-ray, ISO to H.265, M3U8, MP4, etc, for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV directly. Besides, it also has powerful function to extract FLAC audio.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Enjoy MKV on Gear VR Innovator Edition

If you are the lucky ones who have tried the Samsung Gear VR Innovator Edition, both in versions for the Galaxy Note 4 to the recent Galaxy S6 (or the same Oculus Rift), sure you’ve fallen in love with the virtual reality with its endless possibilities. They open when live experiences, enjoy the games from completely new perspectives and, of course, when it comes to watching 3D movies in the famous film that comes standard with the glasses. Anyway, Here is a “How To” guide to convert MKV movies to 3D SBS MP4/MKV for watching HD Movie on Old/New Samsung Gear VR through Oculus Cinema on your Galaxy Note 4 or Galaxy S6 smartphone.

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As we know, because of the playable format of the 3D glasses have strict requirements, such as: some MKV movie files(downloaded from Internet or some raw Blu-ray rips in MKV) work on VR headsets, but the audio has to be encoded in AAC or MP3 for stereo. AC3 audio and DTS Dolby don’t seem to work.

The solution for you is to find a third-party tool to make everything easy. Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is one of the best options. It's easy to use for conversion and can effortlessly change the MKV files to a fully compatible format with Gear VR Innovator Edition/Oculus Cinema. (Here is review). With it, you don't need to know what is the audio codec in the MKV format that'll be best. You just need to choose the among the optimized 3D presets for Gear VR Innovator Edition/Oculus Cinema and this program will do the rest for you. Refer to the Mac OS X El Capitan Solution Guide.

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“ As 2D/HD movie files, 3D movies also have their file formats like 3D MP4, 3D MKV, 3D WMV and 3D AVI. Imagine being able to change your favorite action film into a 3D adventure. Meanwhile, sharing your 3D version of home movies on YouTube could also be a lot of fun. You can even control the depth of 3D. This will be especially useful if you own many 3D-capable devices (Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard, HTC Vive, Zeiss VR One, etc.) – all of your favorite movies can become any type of 3D you want. The 3D Video Converter Ultimate has for output devices are also impressive. All the ones you would expect are there – iPad, iPhone, Android, Microsoft, Sony, HTC, LG, Samsung, Asus products and others – and you can also have this video converter make you a video that will play on Fuze, Sony Walkman, BlackBerry, Zen X-Fi and many more devices. “ - All of these featured it would be this Top MKV to Gear VR Innovator Edition Converter.

The best 3D Video Converter software allows you to make compatible video files for all of your VR Headsets or Android/iOS devices, even if you don’t know terms like FLV, MKV, M4V, MP4, VOB, M2TS, MTS, WMV, MPEG, DVD, etc. If you are interested in knowing the difference, we recommend learning the basics from our informative articles about video converter software.

Let’s Start: Convert MKV files to play with Gear VR Innovator Edition in Oculus Cinema

Step 1. Add video files to the 3D MKV/MP4 Converter

You are provided three methods to add files for the 2D to 3D MKV task:
a. Directly drag & drop 2D video in any format to the 2D to 3D MKV converter
b. Head to “Convert” then choose “Add Files”
c. Click the “Add Files” button in this app’s pane

With the function of batch conversion, you are here allowed to import more than one video files for your 3D movie creating project.

Step 2. Choose the optimized format for Gear VR Innovator Edition

Now click "Format" bar to reveal output panel. And and mouse cursor to "3D Video" category to Select "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" as the output format. The optimized output format will contains the best video settings for playback on your Gear VR Innovator Edition .

Note: Although there is a profile created by the application, we can always change some parameters of resolution, compression, audio, etc. An important issue that you must consider that in Samsung Gear VR resolution for each eye is not FullHD but half the QHD screen. So you can free change your target video size, bitrate, frame rate and 3D depth in “Settings”. If you want to get best video quality, pls switch them to “original”. 3D movies should be encoded “full side-by-side” with a 1:1 pixel aspect ratio. Content mastered at 1920×1080 compressed side-by-side 3D should be resampled to 1920×540 resolution full side-by-side resolution (Learn more).

We also recommend using a higher bit rate than a typical web stream at that resolution, as the pixels in your video will be magnified on the phone's screen. The optimal bit rate is content dependent, and many videos can get by with less, but 5 Mb/s should give good quality.

Step 3. Start converting MKV files

Click the "Start conversion" button at the bottom-right corner of the interface to convert the MKV to Gear VR Innovator Edition/Oculus Cinema . This Video Converter will finish the MKV conversion in just a few minutes. After the conversion, click "Open Folder" icon to locate the converted video files.

Now, equip your 3D glasses (like Gear VR) and put these converted SBS 3D MKV/MP4 video filesin the ‘MyVideos’ folder miscroSD of VR Gear and start your theatric 3D experience at home! BTW, this Video Converter Ultimate additionally supplies some useful edit functions for you to enhance your video then you can get a better 3D visual entertainment.

Monday, January 2, 2017

3D Movies to Gear VR With Oculus Cinema on macOS Sierra

Wanna find the way to play Any 3D Movies on Gear VR through Oculus Cinema on macOS Sierra? It will guide you to convert 3D Contents in Oculus Cinema with 3D effect.

3D is so amazing with the VR! Have you been watch 3D Movies in Oculus Cinema on macOS Sierra? As you know, Gear VR is the first mobile virtual reality headset, has lit up the imagination of both smartphone and VR enthusiasts. Have got a Gear VR yet? Read Top 3D glasses. If you have some 3D movies on Blu-ray, download FLV, AVI, MKV, WMV etc files from websites. There are lots of 3D Movies playback solutions for Gear VR on Windows 10. Why not transfer and watch 3D movies on Gear VR in Oculus Cinema via macOS Sierra? Here is the way to fix this issue for macOS Sierra users.

Hot Topics for Gear VR users: iTunes to Gear VR, Set Up Gear VR, YouTube video to Gear VR ...

To Enjoy 3D videos on Oculus Cinema, you need to convert the 3D Movie files to Samsung Gear VR supported formats. When it comes to playing 3D videos, Samsung Gear VR requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down), but most Blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format. So the workaround is to download a 3D Blu-ray ripping program that can convert a frame packed Blu-ray to 3D SBS MP4/MKV files for Gear VR.

Here, Pavtube iMedia Converter for macOS Sierra that supports handling 3D Blu-ray/DVD disc is necessary for macOS Sierra.

With this all-in-one 3D Video Converter Ultimate for Gear VR on macOS Sierra, you can easily convert 3D Blu-ray movie no matter from Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray movie folder, DVD disc, MKV, AVI, VOB, WMV, Tivo, MPG, FLV/F4V files and export Anaglyph, Top-Bottom, Side-by-Side 3D video supported by Samsung Gear VR unit/Oculus Cinema with the best quality easily. If you are a Windows user, then Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is your first choose (Windows 10 include). Read the Windows 10 Solution.

Now, download this professional App and follow below guide to learn How to Convert 3D movies to SBS MP4/MKV for Samsung Gear VR on macOS Sierra.

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1. Supported to encode H.265/HEVC codec
2. Optimize coding parameters
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Step-by-step: How to Watch 3D Contents on Samsung Gear VR with Oculus Cinema via macOS Sierra?

Step 1: Insert your 3D/2D Blu-ray or standard DVD movie to disc drive, and click "Load from disc" button to load Blu-ray or DVD from ROM. For video file, click the "Add video" button, browse to computer hard drive and import video into this app.

Step 2: Tap on "Format" bar and find "3D Video", there are a lot of format options for you. "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" is recommended for Samsung Gear VR. (Read the differences Between Anaglyph 3D and Side-by-Side 3D)

Step 3: Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel or 3D Depth in the interface according to your needs and optimize the output file quality.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button, video to SBS 3D MP4 conversion begins. After the conversion, place your video files into the folder named "My Videos" on your MicroSD card for Samsung devices. Now, transfer 3D video files and you are ready to watch 3D videos on Samsung Gear VR.

Now, Simply select one of your files and Play 3D content in full immersion with Samsung Gear VR through Oculus Cinema on macOS Sierra! Have Fun!

Editor Notes:

Top 5 3D movies on Gear VR? I find most Disney/Pixar movies to look amazing on 3D. Especially Finding Nemo and Toy Story 3. Also ripped my 3D blurays of Imax Under the Sea and Journey 2 The Mysterious Island all look fantastic. What 3D movies have you seen that blew you away on the Gear VR so far? - Gravity. Micro Monsters with David Attenborough is pretty good. Read Here.

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Source:https://multimediatips.jimdo.com/2015/05/26/watch-3d-movies-on-gear-vr-on-mac/

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