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Old 21st May 2016, 17:45   #839  |  Link
BlackSharkfr
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I can't say for the BluRay formats.
MVC was all new and shiny designed specifically for BluRay3D.
It claimed significant bandwidth improvements over separate parallel streams. But parallel streams was never a popular format for distribution.

The most commonly used formats for distribution were interlaced video MPEG2 (from the few 3D DVDs released in this format) with the left and right views stored in the odd/even fields. And side by side for everything on the internet.

X264 frame-packing 5 expects a frame sequential video as input.
It's the same principle as interlaced 3D but with full-resolution progressive pictures.
1st frame is left eye, 2nd frame is right eye, 3rd frame is left, etc... (Typically provided by some avisynth script since I don't know any software that outputs frame sequential stereoscopic video.
The x264 team chose the name for this option very poorly since it adds to the already very confusing HDMI frame packing transmission format (only exists within the HDMI cable, not a file format, not a picture format)

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