3D

Starting in v13, XBMC supports a number of passive 3D movie formats encoded in SBS, TAB, anaglyph or interlaced.

Interface and menus
Starting in XBMC v13 "Gotham", XBMC has 3D UI support

3D detection
XBMC has three ways to detect whether a videofile is a 3D video. These methods are checked in the following order:

Embedded streaminfo
First, XBMC tries to detect the stereoscopic mode for a video when extracting streamdetails from the videofile.

One of the supported fields is the 'Stereomode' field in the Matroska specification: http://matroska.org/technical/specs/index.html#StereoMode

Manual selection
When playing a video, you can bring up the video settings dialog to manually select the stereoscopic mode.

If you've done this before, XBMC will remember this setting and use it as the second method to detect the stereoscopic mode of a videofile.

Video filenames flags
The third and final method is detection through the filename of the video.

XBMC uses regular expressions to check for certain flags in the filename.

In order to properly detect the stereomode, two tags need to be present in the filename. First, a '3D' tag has to be present that matches the following regex:

In addition to this, either a 'SBS' tag  or a 'TAB' flag   must be present in the filename.

You can customize these regular expressions through the Advancedsettings.xml file.

Regex matching is done case-insensitive, so for example either  and   will work.

See the table below for some examples:


 * Filename examples
 * moviename (year).3d.hsbs.mkv
 * moviename 3d sbs.mkv
 * moviename.3D-HTAB.mkv
 * moviename-3D.sbs-720p.mkv

For other filename flags examples.

General

 * Hardware acceleration is not provided for full SBS or full TAB movies, meaning users will need playback hardware with adequate CPU power.
 * XBMC's "window mode" in Settings -> System -> Video output must use normal "Full screen" and not "Full screen window".

Windows

 * 3D Stereoscopic Support in video driver must be turned off