SpatialLabs Player's Image Quality is Worse than SpatialLabs Go?

FatherCreamy · October 2023

I played a half-width SBS clip in both, and the SpatialLabs Player showed much more noticeable jaggedness that it made SpatialLabs Go look smooth in comparison. Is this a bug, or is it normal for the added Pop Out/Depth control?

JackE · October 2023

Was it made from 2d using Go?

FatherCreamy · October 2023

I used the Side-By-Side mode in Go to play the half-width SBS clip.

Playing the same clip in the SpatialLabs Player introduced jaggedness that looked like low-res aliasing.

ThomSwiss · March 2024

Hmm.. I just created a new thread basically saying the opposite (SpatialLabs Player's Image Quality better than SpatialLabs Go). I stated that SpatialLabs Player's has noticeably less crosstalk/ghosting than SpatialLabs Go. It’s like Viewshift off-centered in SpacialLabs Go (though Viewshift can’t be adjusted in SpacialLabs Go, for whatever reason).

No Viewshift setting for SpacialLabs Go? (Viewshift off-centered in SpacialLabs Go)

ThomSwiss

Mar 17, 2024

I discovered a noticeable difference in image quality when watching side by side movies in SpatialLabs Player compared to watching them with another player and activated SpatialLabs Go: The latter has some ghosting/crosstalk. It's comparable with using the SpatialLaps Player with off-centered Viewshift slider.
Best noticeable with white text on black background: By closing the right eye and looking with the left eye only, I can see a white shadow towards the right side of the text, while by closing the left eye and looking with the right eye only, I can see a white shadow towards the left side. This can be exactly reproduced by using SpacialLabs Player instead, and moving the Viewshift slider 10 to 20 percent off-center to the left.
So - SpatialLabs Go would be perfect, if it would have the same slider or settings like in SpatialLabs Go. Or - in my case - if it would be set to "move the image outside" for about 10 to 20%.

But I can see what you mean: in terms of image resolution, it seems that SpacialLabs Go would win against SpatialLabs Player. It’s like the Player would have less resolution or some pixelation. The Player lacks vital functions anyway (language selection, subtiltes, aspect ratio). So SpacialLabs Go currently is the way to go for sbs movie consumtion. It would just be so valuable to have the same Viewshift adjustments like in SpatialLabs Player.

SpatialLabs Player is top Quality but lacks of vital functions: Audio? Subtitle? Aspect Radio?

ThomSwiss

Mar 17, 2024

I would like to use SpatialLabs Player for 3D side by side movies (as it is meant for). The 3D image quality in SpatialLaps Player is dramatically better than using SpatialLabs Go on any common movie player like VLC or Kodi. Not only does SpatialLaps Player use much less GPU resources, it is by far the better way to enjoy crosstalk-free content. SpatialLabs Go eats up more resources, is prone to crosstalk and image shuttering.
But SpatialLaps Player is useless for viewing movies: It cannot display subtitles in 3D, it even cannot deactivate them, if there are some. It can’t change audio channels (it always takes the first audio track, and that’s it). And nice to have 3D over-under in the newest version, but what’s the point if there is no way to correct a wrong image aspect ratio?
The SpatialLabs Player is one of SpatialLabs core applications and it’s still unfinished. For the non-gaming models like the just released Aspire 15 Spatiallabs it might be even more important.
So dear Acer stuff, if you read this – please give you a push and finish the SpatialLabs Player app with Language/Subtitle/Aspect Ratio setting. It's overdue. These are absolutely vital functions.
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