Transport Protocols for 3D Video

Abstract

The multi-view three-dimensional video streaming is emerging as an important technology for future multimedia services. During the last decade, an explosive growth of video applications over the Internet has occurred, resulting to the demand of better network performance. This includes the need to extend video coding and transport protocols as well as to discover new protocols that will guarantee the delivery of real-time high-quality 3D video to consumers. This chapter provides an extended overview of the most widely used media transport protocols MPEG2-TS and RTP on top of scalable video bitstreams. Nevertheless, these protocols have several limitations and are missing key functionalities. Hence, this chapter provides a description of the most recent developments in the MPEG media transport protocol, which is emerging as the next state-of-the-art application layer transport protocol.