Virtual Home Theater News

Bug fix for a possible crash on some system when play a file.

Bug fix for .m3u8 stream link playback.

1. Added option to save as default start-up settings the following controller settings:

• Laser angle
  
• Shaking hands
  
• Only laser
  
• Use haptic feedback
  

If anatomic preset is used then the "Laser angle" and "Shaking hands" from this preset will overide the default start-up controller settings.

Set your desire laser angle then click the SAVE button:



2. Update the Fixed view projection for Binocular mode.



3. Fixed exit on error "Create subtitle font...FAILED!".
If no unicode font (Arial, Malgun, Futura, Tahoma, etc.) is found installed, then the text subtitles like .srt or .ass will not show on the video screen.
Only bitmap based subtiles will show on the video screen.
To have text subtitles it is required to have or to install Arial font (recommended).

4. Fixed crash when an Bluetooth audio device is disconnected.

Fixed missing subtitle frame and text if subtitle is disabled and saved as default.

[h2]Update Highlights[/h2]

Added new features:
1 - Direct audio playback
2 - MPO image viewer


[h2]Full Update Note[/h2]

[h3]1. Direct audio playback[/h3]



Added direct audio playback from sound track channels to a real home theater audio setup like: stereo, quadraphonic, 5.1 or 7.1 surround real speakers.

This will deactivate the VHT's 3D audio spatial rendering and it will play the audio directly to the headphone or a stereo, quadraphonic, 5.1 or 7.1 surround real speakers.

For media player mode:


For desktop mirror mode:


Audio standard used for master channel ordering (output mapping ordering):
1-FL, 2-FR, 3-FC, 4-LFE, 5-BL, 6-BR, 7-SL, 8-SR

For multi-channel testing of your surround audio equipment in direct media player mode or the VHT's virtual speakers in binaural media player mode, use the following multichannel 7.1 and 5.1 wav test files from:
https://www.jensign.com/bdp95/7dot1voiced/index.html


Updated the "VHT technical note - Audio diagrams.pdf"








Updated the "Windows playback devices" frame:





[h3]2. MPO image viewer[/h3]

Added image viewer support for stereoscopic 3D MPO (Multi Picture Object) photos.



These images (.mpo) are made with HTC EVO 3D phone or Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D W3 Digital Camera.

MPO photos are not like 3D anaglyph (red-cyan) or Side-by-Side images.

You can find and download high quality MPO images from:
https://www.christian-roux.ch/3d/

Fixed default environments (demo, diorama and envi) not loading (showing) in VHT full version if VHT demo version was used previously.