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Just worked out of the box
If you want to play videos from your drive, select the "Z" drive, that's your Linux root directory. In there is the folder "home" and in there is a folder named after your username, that's where your home directory is.
I have to restart SteamVR every time I wanted to use it, because it will instantly crash if you launch it a second time.
By default you can only play videos located in your proton prefix. Probably some sort of security mechanism. Using the tips from the whirligig VR player protondb page I managed to circumvent this protection Excerpt:
In order to allow Skybox to access all folders and files, I modified this file (~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/_v2-entry-point) so it starts as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
shift 2
exec "${@}"
Credit to NoXPhasma and yao mtc
At least it works and plays videos fine without any performance issues. I didn't use any Beta version.
Probably the best VR video player on Linux, if you use the old version.
The newest version has issues with video playback. If you want to play a video the screen will stay black.
To fix the playback issue, just use the previous version (v1.0.1) in the beta tab. This version has no issues with video playback afaic.
In order to allow Skybox to access all folders and files, I modified this file (~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_soldier/_v2-entry-point) so it starts as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
shift 2
exec "${@}"
Credit to NoXPhasma and yao mtc
- It resets your viewing angle every time you go on the menu, it's both annoying and useful.
- Auto detection of video settings could be better, I mostly have to enter the settings manually. It would be excellent to define a default behaviour.
- Excellent otherwise!
Poor but OK FPS for 5-8K video
Crashed a few times, seems random
I used protontricks to access winecfg for the prefix and add a drive, so I didn't have to find it in Z:/mnt/ later
Framerates aren't as smooth as they should be on high res videos, but it's tolerable
Proton 5.13 and above uses the Steam Runtime Container which limits the file access. In order to play videos from anywhere on your PC, make sure to either use Proton 4.11-13, or:
Bypass the runtime container from launching. For that you need to edit the
_v2-entry-pointfile in theSteamLinuxRuntimeand/orSteamLinuxRuntime_soldierfolder(s) of your library folder. In that file add these two lines after the first line:shift 2 exec "${@}"So it looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/env bash shift 2 exec "${@}"You might have to redo that after an update of the Steam Runtime
Credit to NoXPhasma for the above.
The software doesn't see any videos from directories. Also i have multiple external drives mounted in /mnt but the only folder i can reach there is the one where skybox is installed, so SteamLibrary. Local folders on main system are reachable but again no video is founded.
This software works out of the box on Proton 4.11-13
The performance are not the same as in Windows, but probably is due to the Nvidia drivers since it happens also with native games.
shows a window with a logo. No controls on screen or in VR
Also tries to install dotnet35 every time; even if already install via protontricks.
