But as usual in the industry's overzealous drive to stamp out piracy and licence everything to the hilt, it's the legitimate users that end up being most inconvenienced.DVDFab 64-bit is a DVD/Blu-ray/video processing application. It means that in order to use VR for watching movies, I have to waste precious time and HDD space ripping DVDs and hoping the results turn out OK, when really we just need an app that can play the movies straight from our DVD/Blu-Ray drives. All these cinema style apps just play a limited selection of media file types but not any actual physical disks. So far (as far as I'm aware) no one has made an app for VR that can play blu-rays. It's a shitter, because I would love to be able to watch blu-rays in VR in one of the cinema environments. VLC wouldn't play the Blu-Ray either and the only reason I knew it wasn't my Blu-Ray drive causing a problem was because it worked perfectly with the Power DVD demo software. Something to do with the copy protection on the blu-ray possibly. I shall have to try the newer version of MakeMKV as I used it when I first had my rift to try and rip my "Mad Max: Fury Road" blu-ray and it didn't like it. G) Hit play, kick back, relax and enjoy the film! Note: If handbrake crashes when trying to encode, go to the following link and download + install the Handbrake Nightly Build by clicking the ‘WinGUI.exe’ download link and repeat from step 3.ī) Plug Oculus GO in to your PC via USB cableĬ) Put on Oculus GO and ‘Allow’ the connection to your PCĭ) Back on your PC, go to ‘My PC’ (Windows 10) or ‘My Computer (Windows 7) and open ‘VR Headset > Internal Storage > Movies.Į) Drag and drop your reduced movie file in to that ‘Movies’ folderĪ) Download and install free Skybox media player from Oculus GO storeĬ) Press the trigger on the Oculus GO controller when the movie starts and in the ‘Stereo Mode’ menu make sure that ‘2D Single’ is selectedĭ) On the left go over to the ‘Subtitles and Track’ menu, and in the ‘Track’ tab, select stereo or surround depending on what is availableĮ) Choose your environment in ‘Cinema Scene’į) Reset your view to a comfortable position Give file a name (like MovieName – Small) and click ‘Save’ī) Click the ‘Start Encode’ button up the top (this will take a while) Tick the ‘Burn In’ box.ĭ) Click on ‘Selection Behavior’ and tick the ‘Add Closed Captions When Available’ box and click ‘Save’Ī) Click ‘Browse’ down the bottom and pick the location on your PC’s hard drive you want to save your reduced movie file to. Take note of that subtitle track number and pick that number from the drop down list in Handbrake.Ĭ) Untick the ‘Forced Only’ and ‘Default’ boxes. To find correct subtitle track, open the movie in VLC Media player, click ‘Subtitles’ at the top and try the different subtitle tracks until one of them works. Only do this step if watching movie that requires subtitles, otherwise skip to step 5.Ī) Click on ‘Audio Tab’ and from the drop down lists choose the language you want to hear the movie inī) Click on the ‘Subtitles’ tab and from the drop down list pick the correct subtitle track The software will rip the BluRay disc to a file on your PC(will usually take around 30 minutes)Ī) Open Handbrake and click ‘Open a Single Video File’ button and browse to the movie file you just ripped to your PCī) Click the presets drop down list, go to the General menu and choose ‘Super HQ 720p 30 Surround’ Open MakeMKV software and at the top, click ‘Help > Register’, paste the beta code in to that field and click ‘OK’.ĭownload and install latest Handbrake software:Ī) Open MakeMKV, click the big hard drive/disc icon to analyze the movie filesī) Once it’s done, in the list of ‘Titles’ untick all the boxes except the main movie file (this will almost always be the biggest file listed here)Ĭ) Click the ‘Output Folder’ icon on the right hand side and hoose the location on your PC where you want to store the movie fileĭ) Click the MakeMKV button. Go to this website and copy the MakeMKV beta code from the box: STEP 1: DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL FREE SOFTWAREĭownload and install latest MakeMKV Software: Rips are 720p due to Oculus GO resolution limitations but look a lot clearer than what you would expect from 720p on a PC/TV. This works for normal DVD’s as well, just skip the ‘shrink file’ part (unless you want subtitles). Text instructions below, also made a video guide here: Watching movies and Netflix on the Oculus GO has become a favorite past time of mine thanks to the reduced SDE and improved resolution of the Oculus GO.
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