How to Watch 3D Movies on 3D TV via Kodi

For those people who just get a new TV set with 3D capability, have you image that you can turn your large movie collection into 3D TV supported formats with the 2D to 3D function offered by some program, and then watch 3D movies on your 3D TV via Kodi at home. Read this article to find the best answer.

Kodi supported file formats

Before adding your media source into Kodi library, one thing you should be clear is that whether Kodi has the input support for your 2D/3D Blu-ray and common video files, from Kodi's official web page, we find that Kodi has native support for many common video, audio and music file formats listed as below:

Container formats: AVI, MPEG, WMV, ASF, FLV, MKV/MKA (Matroska), QuickTime, MP4, M4A, AAC, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia RAM/RM/RV/RA/RMVB, 3gp

Video formats: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 SP and ASP, MPEG-4 AVC (H.264), H.265 (as from Kodi 14) HuffYUV, MJPEG, RealVideo, RMVB, WMV

Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV/WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, RealAudio, WMA

3D video formats: Passive 3D video formats such as SBS, TAB, anaglyph or interlaced

Solution to Create 3D Movies for Watching on 3D TV via Kodi

From above lists, we can see that Kodi including the support for passive 3D videos formats, however, it lacks the ability to handle both commercial Blu-ray and DVD discs, therefore, the best solution to create 3D movies for watching on 3D TV via Kodi is to transcode your 2D BD/DVD sources, 3D Blu-ray and common movie collection to Kodi compatible 3D SBS/TAB/Anaglyph formats.

Here is where Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate can help. With this application, you can encode any Blu-ray/DVD movies and SD/HD/4K video in MKV, MTS, AVCHD etc. to SBS MP4, AVI, MKV, which is best video formats for 3D TV/Kodi with untouched output image quality keeping best 3D effects. The NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream (AMD APP) technologies enable the converter to give 30× faster 3D movie conversion speed than common 3D video converter programs deliver. You can also use it to add subtitles, watermark to 3D movies, merge, split video file, trim, crop, adjust aspect ratio and more editing features.

For Mac users, the equivalent product is Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, which has updated to support the newest macOS High Sierra.

How to Create 3D Movies to Kodi with 3D Video Converter?

Step 1: Add source video

For disc users, click "Load from disc" to insert your Blu-ray/DVD movies to the software while you can simply drag and drop the common video files on computer hard drive to the app.

Step 2: Define Kodi compatible 3D format

Click "Format"bar, from its drop-down list, as Kodi support many 3D mode and format, here, you can choose to select "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video(*.mp4)" as the desired output format for playback on Kodi.

Step 3: Adjust output 3D profile settings

In the "Profile Settings"window, you can not only adjust the output 3D video and audio profile settings, but also change the 3D Depth by dragging the slider or check the "Switch Left and Right"to decide which direction images to display first.

Step 4: Finish conversion process

Simply click "Convert" on the interface to finish the 3D video conversion for 3D TV. When the conversion, click "Open Output Folder" to pop out the folder with your desired SBS 3D movies in the right displaying order for viewing on 3D TV.

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