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       Stardate: 20260115.0840 
       Location: a local cafe
       Input Device: cybah DeX rig
       Audio: island muzak
       Visual: FMD + nano + tbg of shiny cafe people.
       Emotional: cAfFeInAtEd.
       
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       T H R E E - D E E (3ofx)
       
       So I found some tips about the conversion on the surface webz  
       and decided to test it out.  I brought out my old desktop rig that 
       I use for video stuff and attached an old M E M O R E X external 
       USB Blu-Ray drive, which I haven't used in ages.  The rig is 
       running Debian buster->bullseye.  I thought about doing a fresh 
       install, but decided that I did not want another project on top of 
       what I was trying to test out.  Also, I spent enough time on 
       research already and just wanted to get it tested out.
       
       The first Blu-Ray disc I tried was...uh...a family video...of my 
       kids running...around outside...at night playing in traffic 
       with...uh, glowsticks, shot with the 3D camcorder that burned the 
       video directly to Blu-Ray, yeah, that's right, uh, that's the 
       ticket!  makemkv was already on the video rig so no problems there.  
       Output file was about 35GB, which took about an hour or so.
       
       Step 2, Converting the mkv to SBS 3D mkv was a pain!  BD3D2MK3D is 
       a windows program that does not run natively in linux.  People have 
       had success running it in WINE and I decided to attempt installing 
       it in bottles.  FAIL and wasted time.  I gave up on that.  
       
       Next option, old Windows 10 laptop.  No problems installing the 
       program there.  
       
       Next issue: transferring mkv to laptop.  Task: find spare 
       drive with adequate storage.  Done.  Task: Copy 35GB mkv to 
       external 2.5" USB drive.  Done.
       
       I ran the BD3D2MK3D application and started the conversion.
       
       S U P E R S L O W ! ! !
       
       I had to let the process run overnight and then some.  The 
       conversion averaged 3.x frames per second and took over 12 hours to 
       process.  It did run to completion and outputted a file that was 4+ 
       GB.
       
       After the file was done, the 4+ GB file was loaded into the cybah 
       DeX rig, vlc was launched and configured, and the file ran 
       successfully!  The 3D effect was there and the video was good 
       enough.  If video quality is good enough, I'm fine with that.  My 
       aging eyes are not what they were and I'm just happy that it 
       worked and I could experience 3D on the Xreal glasses.  I did an 
       initial comparison with the HMZ-T2 unit and the experience was much 
       better on the Air glasses.  As for the image quality, I think I 
       gotta run m0ar tests. 
       
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