How to encode a video in a scalable manner?

• The open source SVC coder (JSVM) [1] can be used to encode a video into multiple layers.
• A SVC-enabled video player can be implemented using an open source SVC decoder [2]. 
• A scalable video streaming testbed was prototyped in [3]. 

References
[1] J. Reichel, H. Schwarz, and M. Wien. Joint scalable video model 11 (JSVM 11). Joint Video Team, Doc. JVT- X, 2007.
[2] M. Blestel and M. Raulet. Open SVC decoder: a flexible SVC library. ACM MM ’10, pages 1463–1466, New York, NY, USA, 2010.
[3] S. Xiang. Scalable streaming. https://sites.google.com/site/svchttpstreaming/.