Patent ID: 8749616

Claim:
A method for parsing stereoscopic content in a media file, the method comprising: receiving, by a receiver, the stereoscopic content; and parsing, by a processor, a track reference field and a duplication indication field and using stereoscopic view-related information with at least one of a plurality of tracks and at least one other track, wherein the stereoscopic content includes: a plurality of tracks for storing video data, the stereoscopic video-related information for providing three-dimensional video on a terminal, the stereoscopic video-related information included in at least one of the plurality tracks, the track reference field including information used to connect the at least one of the plurality of tracks to the at least one other track in the media file to which the at least one track refers, and the duplication indication field for indicating that stereoscopic video related information comprised in at least one of the plurality of tracks is to be associated with the at least one other track connected to the at least one of the plurality of tracks by the track reference field, and wherein the duplication indication field is omitted in any one of the at least one of the plurality of tracks and the at least one other track, if the stereoscopic video-related information between the at least one of the plurality of tracks and the at least one other track is the same.