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I updated this yesterday but found a couple of bugs so I've updated it again with no version change (they were small bugs but needed to be fixed). Anyone who already downloaded it might of noticed that the menu broke or that the new settings menu swapped the eye order. This has now been fixed.
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3.74
There are quite a few new things in here so I'll divide them up and explain each one.
Subtitle support
You can now have subtitles with your films. If you have a film and want to have subtitles then simply accompany the film with an srt file so for example. Alice in Wonderland.mp4 and the subtitle file Alice in Wonderland.srt
The subtitles will play automatically but you can turn them off with a xbox mapped button or by using the new menus.
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New Menu
I've been adding loads of features over the development of the player but a lot of the features have been somewhat hidden. I've now created a new settings menu that has all these features making it easy to access them and easy for me to add more to them. So firstly to access this menu use the cog icon on the main display at the bottom on the left. Each menu explained:
General
Background glow. Turn off and on the background glow for cinema films.
Loop. Turn loop on and off.
Swap Eyes. The standard for stereo is left right but this allows you to swap those eyes.
Mirror display. Mirror the display to the monitor off and on.
Glue UI. Glue the UI to the hmd.
Subtitles. If there are subtitles turn them off and on.
Volume. Turn volume up and down.
Stereo Separation. Increase or decrease stereo separation of a 3D film.
SuperSamping. Increase or decrease SuperSamping.
Position
This menu allows you to move the camera position around. Currently simple Backward, Forward, Up, Down, Left, Right.
Adjust
Here you can access all the controls you need to adjust the projection and playback of the video. So a quick list:
Stereo options. Mono, Over Under, Side by Side.
Projection Type. Fisheye, Barrel, Cinema, Curved, Custom, Rooms.
Tilt.
FOV.
Radius.
Rotation.
Misc
Here you can change the video plugin to VLC or DirectShow and also load a youtube link. This is quite early stages so it might crash when using the VLC plugin. The player always starts in DirectShow mode as that is very stable.
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The explorer has also had an update and can now be operated with the arrow keys, dpad, vive touch and the Oculus remote control. Bassically as soon as you use these the standard crosshair will be taken over and you will be able to navigate up and down the lists with those keys removing the need to look at the files you want. It wasn't a straightforward introduction and if there are any issues let me know.
A big but small change is that the play pause button now plays and pauses. What this means is that the video will now play with the menus up and you can use all the menus as the video plays. I will be adding an option to go back to the old way but this seemed to be an obvious and useful change especially with the new menus. Let me know what you think of this change.
Other updates include bug fixes to the Vive controller and probably other stuff but I can't fully remember. If I think of anything I'll add it again here.
So let me know what you think of all the updates. I'm going to continue to add things. This is currently only been released as a beta as I want to do some proper bug checking before updating the main build. If you find any bugs let me know.
Thanks for using Whirligig and I hope you continue to enjoy it.
All the best
Phil