Bino 2.5 is released
In this release:
- Improved meta data detection, for automatic selection of stereoscopic 3D and surround modes
- A few small bug fixes.
News
Document on meta data
We have a new document on meta data for stereoscopic 3D and 360°/180° surround video.
Bino 2.4 is released
In this release:
- Added support for HDR video input with tone mapping.
- Added support for zooming in surround videos.
- Increased minimum Qt version to 6.6.
Bino 2.3 is released
In this release:
- Added support for slideshow mode.
- Improved support for image file formats, including MPO.
- Improved compatibility with ARM platforms. Bino now works on the Raspberry Pi 5! Thanks to Hubert Meier for tireless testing and for providing access to a test system!
- Added new capabilities to
--vr-screenfor easy configuration of two-screen stereo setups.
Qt Multimedia Compatibility
Qt switched to FFmpeg
as its default media backend on all platforms a while back.
That is certainly good news and the right decision in the long run.
However, there are still a few glitches in the FFmpeg backend at the moment. If you encounter a video that Bino cannot play, it may help to try an
alternative backend.
For example, on Linux, install the GStreamer backend (the package might be called qt6-multimedia-gstreamer or similar), and run Bino like this:
export QT_MEDIA_BACKEND=gstreamer
bino
Bino 2.2 is released
This release brings new features as well as bug fixes:
- Added support for capturing windows and screens. This allows to bring your desktop or arbitrary applications into your Virtual Reality environment.
- Added support for HighDPI output.
- Added support for 3D HDMI frame-pack output mode.
- Improved performance in multi-host/multi-GPU Virtual Reality setups.
- Improved compatibility for various OpenGL implementations, including on Mac OS.
Bino 2.1 is released
This release brings new features as well as bug fixes:
- Added support for loading/saving/editing play lists, with loop modes off/one/all.
- Added support for 180° videos, with and without 3D.
- Added 3D output modes left-right(-half), right-left(-half), top-bottom(-half), bottom-top(-half).
- Added support for rendering controller models in VR mode.
- Improved GUI menu structure.
- Fixed color space conversion for several pixel formats, mostly used by image file formats.
- Fixed various scripting mode problems.
Bino 2.0 is released
This is a complete rewrite of Bino. All code is new and based on Qt6:
- Builds with CMake instead of autoconf
- Media input is handled by Qt Multimedia instead of FFmpeg and libass
- Media output is handled by Qt abstractions instead of OpenAL, GLEW and plain OpenGL
- Virtual Reality support is handled by QVR instead of Equalizer
- Translations use Qt mechanisms instead of gettext
- Support for 360° videos, with and without 3D
- Simpler and more powerful VR mode, with autodetection of SteamVR
- Support for both desktop OpenGL and OpenGL ES
- GPU accelerated video decoding
- Scripting commands have changed, see the manual
- Multi-screen fullscreen now always requires VR mode, but is simple to set up with QVR.
- LIRC support is not built in anymore but can be achieved by writing scripting commands to a named pipe
- Cropping and zooming
- Parallax adjustment
- Crosstalk ghostbusting
- Advanced subtitle formats
- Separate left/right video tracks
Web site updated
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