SoC 2011/Stereo high profile mvc encoding

This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2011. Student: Palanivel Guruvareddiar Mentor: Kieran Khunya

Abstract

The goal of this project is to add Multi-view coding (to be specific stereo 3D) support to x264 encoder. This will enable x264 to author 3D videos in H.264 Stereo High Profile MVC format. This will involve adding the encoding tools specific to secondary (right) view. 3D Bluray made H.264 MVC as the encoding format and the secondary goal of the poject is to implement 3D Bluray specific changes.

Milestones

This section will be updated after every milestone

Status	Deadline	Description
Done	May 20	All Intra scenario with constant QP option
Done	June 17	Working IPPP stream with constant QP option

Timeline

The schedule is preliminary

Status	Date	Period	Description
Done	May 09 - May 13	week 1	Subset SPS, AVC SPS changes
Done	May 16 - May 20	week 2	All Intra case with constant qp scenario
Done	May 23 - May 27	week 3	IP scenario without inter-view prediction (constant QP)
Done	May 30 - June 3	week 4	IP scenario without inter-view prediction (constant QP)
Done	June 6 - June 10	week 5	IP scenario with inter-view prediction (constant QP)
Done	June 13 - June 17	week 6	Testing & Bug fixing
Not started	June 20 - June 24	week 7	IB..P scenario without inter-view prediction (constant QP)
Not started	June 27 - July 01	week 8	IB..P scenario with inter-view prediction (constant QP)
Not started	July 4 - July 8	week 9	IB..P scenario with inter-view prediction (constant QP)
Not started	July 11 - July 15	week 10	Testing & Bug fixing
Not started	July 18 - July 22	week 11	Rate control related changes
Not started	July 25 - July 29	week 12	Rate control related changes
Not started	Aug 01 - Aug 05	week 13	Rate control related changes & bug-fixing
Not started	Aug 08 - Aug 12	week 14	3D Blu-ray related modifications
Not started	Aug 15 - Aug 19	week 15	3D Blu-ray related modifications
Not started	Aug 22 - Aug 26	week 16	3D Blu-ray related modifications
Not started	Aug 29 - Sep 02	week 17	Testing & Bug fixing

Repository

https://github.com/gurunathan/SHP-MVC-x264

To test the code

            $ git clone git@github.com:gurunathan/SHP-MVC-x264.git
            $ cd shp-mvc-x264
            $ git checkout shp-mvc-x264
            $ ./configure
            $ make
            $ x264 <args> --stereo-mvc