I have 3D movies in my Computer section of my Apple TV and the tv that has 3D or does it work that way?
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How easy to view 3D movies with AVP?
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StumpyBloke
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Lol, I have an Apple TV, a TV that has 3D and 3D movies on the computer and discs.
Can I put on a AVP, turn on the TV and view the 3D movies on the Apple TV?
Or what's the process to view 3D movies, can I view the movies I have or do I need to get them again?
Can I put on a AVP, turn on the TV and view the 3D movies on the Apple TV?
Or what's the process to view 3D movies, can I view the movies I have or do I need to get them again?
axantas
macrumors 65816
I use Moon Player to access my files stored on a NAS - so it is streaming via my local network. I guess Apple TV (the App on the AVP) is not able to do that. Use VLC Player and access your local files via WiFi - VLC does 3D too.
And switch your 3D TV off while watching the movies on the AVP - it is of no use then. 😉
And switch your 3D TV off while watching the movies on the AVP - it is of no use then. 😉
Does the iPad VLC app work on AVP, if so can I load movie files directly onto the VLC AVP files app to watch when offline ?
axantas
macrumors 65816
It works flawlessly, VLC is available in the AppStore on the AVP. Just checked it on the AVP itself: You can access files, you copied to your AVP, on iCloud Drive, OneDrive or a local server.
As I have plenty of storage on the AVP I am using the local storage myself for clips - but it works for long movies too.
Macaholic868
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You won’t be viewing anything in 3D on AppleTV with a Vision Pro. You’ll view 3D content in a app based player that supports displaying 3D content in the formats your 3D files from your computer are in. You can load them in iCloud, in some apps you can also view them if you create file shares using SMB and some apps actually have software you can load and run on your PC or Mac that will automatically stream your 3D content to your AVP (provided the video format is supported by the app).
Personally I tried Moon Player and it was OK if you had the content in the 3D formats it supports but I didn’t have a lot of content in the formats it supported when it first appeared in the App Store. it probably supports more now, but I settled on 4XVR and love it.
The app is less than $30 bucks and includes a Windows or Mac component you can run at startup on your computer or laptop that least you add your movie content to the app on your computer and then stream it right to the app on the AVP in addition to supporting media from iCloud or an SMB file shares and it supports a plethora of formats including a straight up 3D blue ray in ISO format, so I can get high quality, high detail content and don’t have to covert it to SBS or some other format.
That was great for me because I use ISO’s to backup my blu ray collection as is so when I got the AVP I figured eventually there’d be a way to stream 3D blu ray content and started buying 3D blu rays if I already owned the blue ray but it wasn’t 3D I’d rent it and do my thing. Yes, I’m aware that might not be legal but if I saw a movie in theaters one or more times, rented it one or more times or bought it, in some cases multiple times (VHS, DVD then Blu Ray) I don’t care. They’ve gotten plenty of my money already and I don’t feel obligated to pay for it again.
If you own digital movies through the Apple TV Store / iTunes Store as I did then the nice thing it is that though the library is limited, in my case about 15 of the movies I had already purchased through the Apple TV store existed in 3D format so I was already able to stream those in 3D through the AppleTV app in the AVP because I’d already bought the film and so long as it wasn’t acquired with Movies Now or through some other method like a redemption code from a Blu Ray, etc. but was purchased directly from Apple, you get access to the 3D version for free.
So I already had a nice little library of some of my favorite films in 3D format to tide me over before apps appeared that let you steam content you had on your computer to the AVP.
Personally I tried Moon Player and it was OK if you had the content in the 3D formats it supports but I didn’t have a lot of content in the formats it supported when it first appeared in the App Store. it probably supports more now, but I settled on 4XVR and love it.
The app is less than $30 bucks and includes a Windows or Mac component you can run at startup on your computer or laptop that least you add your movie content to the app on your computer and then stream it right to the app on the AVP in addition to supporting media from iCloud or an SMB file shares and it supports a plethora of formats including a straight up 3D blue ray in ISO format, so I can get high quality, high detail content and don’t have to covert it to SBS or some other format.
That was great for me because I use ISO’s to backup my blu ray collection as is so when I got the AVP I figured eventually there’d be a way to stream 3D blu ray content and started buying 3D blu rays if I already owned the blue ray but it wasn’t 3D I’d rent it and do my thing. Yes, I’m aware that might not be legal but if I saw a movie in theaters one or more times, rented it one or more times or bought it, in some cases multiple times (VHS, DVD then Blu Ray) I don’t care. They’ve gotten plenty of my money already and I don’t feel obligated to pay for it again.
If you own digital movies through the Apple TV Store / iTunes Store as I did then the nice thing it is that though the library is limited, in my case about 15 of the movies I had already purchased through the Apple TV store existed in 3D format so I was already able to stream those in 3D through the AppleTV app in the AVP because I’d already bought the film and so long as it wasn’t acquired with Movies Now or through some other method like a redemption code from a Blu Ray, etc. but was purchased directly from Apple, you get access to the 3D version for free.
So I already had a nice little library of some of my favorite films in 3D format to tide me over before apps appeared that let you steam content you had on your computer to the AVP.
I have SKYBOX, which I have been using since the oculus quest, as well as Moon Player, CineUltra and 4XVR apps in my apple Vision Pro. All four apps have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I think the best player for playing movies, VR, Insta360 videos is CineUltra. It is also a great front end for Plex.