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Immersive media content provides a more natural representation of real world information compared to conventional two-dimensional video. In the near future, video applications will be replaced by immersive media with the technological advancements of three-dimensional video capture technologies, efficient multi-view compression algorithms, ever increasing bandwidth of communication links and three-dimensional video display techniques. This paper envisages an application scenario of stereoscopic TV over IP networks. The colour and depth/disparity videos are considered as the main source of stereoscopic video material. Furthermore, this paper proposes a methodology to encode colour and depth video asymmetrically using the layered architecture of the scalable extension of H.264/AVC. The proposed asymmetric coding method achieves high image quality for the rendered left and right videos at low …