MVC SDK
Multiview Video Coding
MVC (Multiview Video Coding) is a new amendment to the H.264/AVC standard that allows you to generate stereoscopic and multi-view 3D video streams. It is also an essential part of Free Viewpoint Video (FVV), the interactive selection of viewpoints as well as direction within an operating range (a virtual view, not an available camera view). MVC makes use of some interfaces and approaches that have been initiated with the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of H.264/AVC standard.
After the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) approved and released the new “Blu-ray 3D” specification, multiview video coding has generated a lot of interest in the content and content delivery markets. Right now more and more movies are produced in 3D for enhanced entertainment. There is also a steadily increasing number of cinemas that are able to present movies in 3D. In the near future, users will also want to watch these 3D films in their living-room or on a PC. Many companies have recently announced plans to release TVs, monitors and Blu-ray players with 3D playback capabilities. Now it is up to the content community to deliver larger amounts of compelling 3D content to satisfy the needs of the home entertainment market.
The MVC SDK includes presets to generate Blu-ray 3D compliant streams that can be played back by any Blu-ray Player and TV supporting 3D content playback. The MainConcept MVC Encoder is based on the current H.264/AVC Encoder implementation, and includes all its features and supports stereoscopic encoding mode for base view and one dependent view representing images for left and right eye.
The encoder supports the High Profile as prescribed by the MVC specification. The bit rate of MVC encoded streams is proportional to the number of views, but it is still more efficient than similar approaches.
The MainConcept MVC SDK will also come with a corresponding decoder as well as related filters that allow the playback of Blu-ray 3D as well as other MVC streams. Additionally, the package contains some encoding and decoding samples that provide a quick introduction into 3D conversion.
Availability
Interested parties who want to take a first look at this exciting new MVC SDK, should contact their local sales representative directly or contact MainConcept at sales@mainconcept.de. We are looking for business and technology leaders in the broadcast and film industry to provide important feedback to us during the development and release phase of this product.
- New API with H.264 settings structure for each view
- Ready-to-use Blu-ray 3D profile for amazing 3D experience
- Stereo profile with 2 views
- Single-/multi pass encoding for each view (CBR and VBR)
- AQM (Adaptive Quantization Mode) support
- HRD model conformance
- I, P, B frames in base view
- P and B frames in dependent views
- Split view/stream capability
- Configurable offset meta data SEI
- Backward compatible to the broadly accepted H.264/AVC standard (base view)
- Stereo and Multiview Profile with up to 10 views
- Realtime decoding with HD resolution depending on the system performance (2 views)
- Backward compatible to the broadly accepted H.264/AVC standard (base view)
- Stereoscopic Render filter for NVIDIA 3D Vision graphics cards
- Stereoscopic filter for specifying the proper display of views for 3D playback (left - right, over - under, etc.)
- MVC Encoder
- MVC Config Tool
- MVC Decoder
- MVC MuxView Filter (DS)
- MPEG-2 Demuxer Filter (DS)
- Transvideo Stereoscopic Filter
- Stereoscopic Render Filter (DS)
- Windows, XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit)
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5 or higher (Mac/Intel), (32-bit/64-bit)
- Linux (32-bit/64-bit) - Ubuntu 10.04 LTS