MV-HEVC for Apple Vision Pro

MV-HEVC (Multiview High Efficiency Video Coding) is Apple's format for spatial video on Vision Pro. It encodes left and right eye views as separate layers within a single HEVC stream, allowing the Vision Pro to render native stereoscopic playback.

How MV-HEVC differs from SBS

In SBS, both eyes are combined into a single flat image that a player splits during playback. In MV-HEVC, each eye is a separate video layer with its own encoding parameters. The Vision Pro hardware decoder handles layer separation natively, producing higher quality than software-decoded SBS.

Output settings

anelo outputs MV-HEVC in a MOV container with Apple-compatible metadata tags. The encoder settings are optimized for Vision Pro playback:

• Codec: HEVC Main 10 profile
• Container: MOV with stereoscopic metadata
• Quality: CRF 18 (near-lossless) by default

Compatibility

MV-HEVC files play natively on Apple Vision Pro and in the Apple TV app on Mac. They are not compatible with Meta Quest, 3D TVs, or most VR players — use SBS for those devices. If you need to support multiple platforms, export once and generate both SBS and MV-HEVC from the same depth data.