How to Import and Watch DVD movies onto Oculus Rift DK2

Summary: This article mainly talks about how to rip and convert DVD to a fully compatible format with DK2, so that you can enjoy a true theater entertainment at home instead of going to cinema.

Oculus Rift DK2, the latest development kit for the Oculus Rift, has a giant leap against its predecessor DK1 - a higher resolution panel up to 1920*1080(1080p) coupled with a low-persistence OLED display and low-latency positional head tracking. It's definitely awesome to watch funny DVD movies on Oculus Rift DK2 coupled with wearing a decent headset while lying on the soft sofa. Here comes the problem - do you know how to view DVD movies on Oculus Rift DK2?

As all we know, Oculus Rift Dk2 does not include a drive for playing DVDs. In order to watch your favorite DVD movies on Oculus Rift Developers Kit Dk2, you need to rip its contents off the DVD disc and convert them a fully comaptible format with the Oculus Rift Dk2 to create true theater entertainment at home instead of going to cinema. In fact, it is easy to watch DVD videos on Oculus Rift Dk2 as long as you got a DVD Ripper in hand. There is a number of DVD Ripping software available to help you convert DVD videos if you want to play them on Oculus Rift Dk2. These software programs vary, so you might be confused when you have to choose one. If so, you are recommended to use Brorsoft DVD Ripper. It is rated as the best solution out there to watch DVD movies on Oculus Rift Dk2.

With it, you can effortlessly rip and convert DVD to Oculus Rift DK2 supported video format with fast speed while keeping the pristine visual quality. In addition, this DVD Ripping tool can also keep your desired subtitles while converting DVD to various popular video formats like AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG, MOV, FLV, MKV, 3GP for playback on iPad, iPhone, iPod, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Zune, Archos, Blackberry, Xbox and more conveniently. If you would like to watch these DVD movies on Oculus Rift DK2 with excellent 3D effect, chances are you have downloaded this amazing program, for which has the capacity to change any 2D/3D DVD to 3D MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, etc videos for watching on Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, Samsung VR, Zeiss VR One, etc. If not, don't hesitate to download the wonderful gadget. If you are using in Mac, turn to Brorsoft DVD Ripper for Mac.



How to convert DVD to Oculus Rift Developers Kit Dk2

Step 1: Load DVD movies

Launch the program and click Load DVD: Load DVD Folder, Load ISO Files or Load IFO files to import the DVD movies you want to rip. As you see, all added files will be listed below and you can preview them, take snapshots, choose subtitle and audio track, etc. as you like.



Step 2. Select output format

If you are looking for 3D effect, you are advised to click "Format" and move to "3D Video" category. There are a lot of format options for you, here "MP4 Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mp4)" is recommended. Or just move to "Common Video" and click "H.264 Video(*.mp4)" for plain 2D playback.



Step 3. Click "Settings" icon to adjust audio and video parameters

Click the "Settings" icon and you will go into interface named "Settings". You can adjust codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel as you like. For ripping DVD to view on Oculus Rift DK2, 2D/3D videos for the Cinema app should be in 720p (1280*720) with a higher bitrate around 5mbit/s. Higher resolutions for the specific format doesn't make the quality better but are a waste of power and battery life.

Step 4. Start converting DVD movies

When you have finished all the above settings, you can simply click the Convert button on the main interface and let the software do the DVD to Oculus Rift DK2 conversion for you.

Unlike the Gear VR, the Oculus Rift DK2 (pictured) is tethered to a PC with wires. Then how to Watch Movies On The Oculus Rift Development Kit 2 DK2? Here we go:

1. Download and install VLC Player
2. Download and install VR Player
3. You then need to download the DK2 Tracker (Hosted here case it is removed from where I got it from) for motion tracking with the player
4. Expand the .zip and copy to the following location (or wherever you installed VR Player): C:Program Files (x86)VR PlayerTrackers
5. Open up VR player and set the tracker that you just copied as follows:



Depending on the content you wish to view you have a few options. Here are some examples:

1. Set up Oculus as extended Desktop the Rift Display Mode program
2. Ensure your windows monitor is setup so your rift is secondary.
3. For 3D movies such as Big Hero 6:

Menu - Media - Format - Side By Side
Menu - Media - Projection - Plane

4. If your movie is not 3D

Menu - Media - Format - Mono
Menu - Media - Projection - Plane

5. To open a movie select:

Menu - File - Open File - With VLC

6. Browse to your selected movie.
7. Now that the movie is running you need to move the video screen onto your Oculus screen.

In my case the Oculus is my second monitor to the left. So I hit these keys:
Hit Windows Key + Cursor Key Left (Do this twice, this moves the window to your Oculus)
Hit Windows Key + Cursor Key Up (This maximizes the window)

8. Put on headphones and enjoy!

How awesome is this? Yeah, it is that good! And then you can enjoy DVD movies on Oculus Rift DK2 easily.

Related Guides:

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

How to Watch 3D YouTube movies on Samsung Gear VR

How to Watch DVD Films on Zeiss VR One with 3D effect