Method and apparatus for decoding/encoding a video signal

A video medium player, comprising:

• a receiving unit configured to receive a multi-view video signal including a random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only a slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, the multi-view video signal being transmitted as a digitally-encoded signal;
• a digital signal processing unit configured to decode a target video signal from the multi-view video signal, and configured to,
• obtain a random access flag for inter-view prediction, the random access flag indicating whether a coded picture is the random access picture;
• obtain initialization information of a reference picture list for the random access slice based on the random access flag, the initialization information representing a reference relation between a plurality of views, the initialization information including view number information and view identification information, the view number information indicating a number of reference views of the random access picture, and the view identification information providing a view identifier of each reference view for the random access picture;
• initialize the reference picture list by assigning an inter-view reference index to a reference picture using the view number information and the view identification information;
• obtain a difference value from the multi-view video signal, the difference value representing a difference between inter-view reference indices in the initialized reference picture list;
• determine an assignment modification value for changing the inter-view reference index in the initialized reference picture list based on the difference value;
• modify the initialized reference picture list for inter-view prediction, wherein the modifying includes reordering the reference picture by changing the inter-view reference index assigned to the reference picture based on the determined assignment modification value;
• determine a prediction value of a macroblock in the random access picture based on the modified reference picture list;
• and
• decode the macroblock using the prediction value,
• wherein the initialization information is obtained based on a value indicating decoding order between the plurality of views;
• a D/A converter configured to convert the target video signal into an analog video signal;
• and
• a display unit configured to output the analog video signal.