2015-11-14, 04:05
(2015-11-14, 02:59)brazen1 Wrote: MVC (Multiview Video Coding) the more I've read, the more confused I've become.
What is the main advantage/disadvantage of extracting this .mvc file(s) for playback vs. regular folder structure without extracting anything?
Sorry for my ignorance, trying to understand and google isn't helping.
It's quite difficult to rip a 3D Blu-ray to a folder structure as the 3D Blu-ray format uses some clever UDF format on the disk to map the same video streams to different files in the structure. That is why 3D Blu-rays are almost always ripped to ISOs not Folders. Because of the complexity of the 3D Blu-ray format and ISO coding, actually converting a 3D Blu-ray to an MKV with an H264 and an MVC stream is another option which is easier to replay. For a while the Raspberry Pi 2 3D implementation only worked with 3D MVC MKVs because the 3D ISO format wasn't supported properly in Kodi.
MVC is the coding scheme used for Full HD 3D Blu-ray, it's a way of encoding one eye with an H264 stream (which is 2D compatible) and allows an MVC eye-difference signal to be encoded (at a lower data rate than a second H264 stream would need for the other eye).
