I'm glad that *somebody* is working on a video codec that's optimised for stereoscopic video, but wow I hate the way that Apple has made MV-HEVC quasi-proprietary.

[misofist@girlcock.club]

I'm glad that *somebody* is working on a video codec that's optimised for stereoscopic video, but wow I hate the way that Apple has made MV-HEVC quasi-proprietary.

[misofist@girlcock.club]

Ok even compiling ffmpeg and x265 from source, I am unable to successfully transcode stereoscopic video on a round trip through MV-HEVC. The encode *seems* to work (with some warnings), but I have no way to test it. Decoding fails with a bunch of errors.

Every single person online I can find who got it to work was using macOS. It seems it might only be possible on Apple hardware?

NvEnc allegedly has support but with zero documentation. Unclear even what GPUs support it.

[misofist@girlcock.club]

Hopefully in like 4 years this tech is useable lol

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@Misofist what else.did you expect from an MPEG-LA member like #Apple?

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@Misofist that is by design!

• Because the people behind #ValueRemoving & #RentSeeking proprietary tech like #HEVC want to shaft consumers and manufacturers for #licensing money, because that's how their business ROI's itself!

• I just wished #AV1 would have feature parity in that regard…

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@Misofist personally, I think it's cheaper and easier to just have both eyes as seperate videos and get #VLC or other players like #mpv to propery handle #3D output…

[misofist@girlcock.club]

@kkarhan Yeah. Funnily enough only previous attemp I could find at stereoscopic video encoding was MVC, which is an extension to h264.

It'd be so cool if AV1 pursued this! But it's still a pretty niche use case so I'm sure it's not a priority for them.