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		SSLy 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I ruined my vacation by reverse engineering WSC > Who would've thunk that merely playing a 8K European documentary in VR would require configuring DirectShow filters found on GitHub. Dios Mio, get mpv, enable gpu-hq

animuchan 11 months ago [–]

Thanks! How do I run it in VR though? Can't find it in the manual[1]

[1]: https://mpv.io/manual/master/

SSLy 11 months ago | [–]

via Virtual Desktop I suppose. So mpv would do all of the video stuff and then would blit a SbS video onto VD, and VD would warp the two halves on a spherical surface?

Honestly I've never thought about that before.

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