Multiview x265 vs. MV-HEVC:
An Efficiency Analysis for Stereoscopic Videos
PCS 2025
December 8 – December 11, 2025
Aachen, Germany
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Kamran Qureshi, Hadi Amirpour, Christian Timmerer
Abstract: With the increasing demand for immersive video experiences, efficient compression of multiview content has become crucial for reducing storage and transmission costs. The introduction of stereoscopic video support on head-mounted displays, along with the emergence of smartphones capable of easily capturing stereoscopic videos, further highlights the need for optimized encoding solutions. Although the efficient but computationally intensive Multi-View High Efficiency Video Coding (MV-HEVC) standard has been available since 2014, only recently has x265—a real-time open-source HEVC encoder—introduced support for multiview encoding. This work (i) evaluates the encoding efficiency of multiview x265 across all presets, and compares it with MV-HEVC, (ii) proposes a perceptual quality–aware preset selection method, and (iii) conducts a comparative study on single-view and stereoscopic videos.
