2016-03-08

How to Watch 3D YouTube movies on Samsung Gear VR

Summary: This article mainly talks about how to download 3D YouTube videos for playback on Samsung Gear VR with 3D effect.

Nowadays, with the rapid development of technologies, more and more people are able to and become interested in watching 3D movies via 3D glasses. Thanks to its relatively low price coupled with spectacular visual experience, Samsung Gear VR Zeiss VR One has become a great choice for enjoying 3D movies. However, still many people don't know where to get that 3D movies at present. Actually, 3D YouTube movies are good sources for Zeiss VR One.

In general, in order to watch 3D YouTube movies on Gear VR, One possible solution is to directly get YouTube 3D videos on Gear VR with YouTube application. Alternatively, you can transfer some 3D YouTube movies downloaded on computer to Gear VR, so that you can play 3D YouTube videos on Gear VR without YouTube opened. For the latter, you'd better convert your YouTube videos to Gear VR playable 3D SBS MP4/MKV files first, since most of them are 3D files in FLV format, which is not a compatible format for Gear VR. Frankly, it not as hard as you imagine so long as you have a professional third-party program like Brorsoft 3D Video Converter.

With it, you can convert 3D YouTube FLV to Gear VR compatible SBS 3D MP4/MKV effortlessly. In addition to YouTube files, this program also allows you to convert all 2D/3D videos in AVI, MKV, WMV, MPG, VOB, TiVo, MOV, etc to a decent format as you want. What's more, with the built-in editor, you can trim, crop, adjust special effect to your YouTube video, so that you get the very part and effects at your will. If you are a Mac user, you can turn to Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac (El Capitan, Yosemite included), which has the same function as the Windows version.

Download 3D YouTube Video Converter:

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

How to convert and play 3D YouTube files on Gear VR
Step 1. Load your YouTube movies

Launch the video converter for Gear VR, and click Add button to import your source materials from YouTube. Batch conversion is supported so that you can add multiple files for conversion at a time.



Step 2. Select output format

Click "Format" and select "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" from "3D Video" category as the output format. It works on Samsung Gear VR perfectly.



Tip: Click Settings to adjust the parameters like video codec, video bitrate, video frame rate, audio sample rate, audio channel. 1920x1080 compressed side-by-side 3D should be resampled to 1920x540 resolution full side-by-side resolution. And keep audio in AAC or MP3.

Step 3. Start conversion

Click the "Convert" button to start and finish the 3D YouTube video to Gear VR conversion.

After the conversion, click "Open" button to quickly locate the generated media file. Now you can transfer the converted YouTube videos to play with Gear VR easily.

Additional Tips- How to Find 3D videos from YouTube:

a. YouTube has official 3D channel; there you can find lots of 3D YouTube videos related to different niche. Rest you can customize your searches a bit by using the search queries.

b. Use this phrase before your keyword, "yt3d:enable=true" so the actual search query becomes "yt3d:enable=true Technology"

c. Just make sure the videos you are searching or viewing are 3D in nature.

Related Guides:

Tutorial on enjoying 3D Blu-ray movies on iPhone/Android handset with Zeiss VR One

Playing MKV Files on Gear VR No Sound - The Solution

How to Watch 360 3D YouTube Videos on Zeiss VR One

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