1. An apparatus comprising: an encoder configured to encode at least two views corresponding to multi-view video content by, encoding a particular view of the at least two views as a base layer, and encoding each of at least one other view of the at least two views as an enhancement layer using a prediction from a lower layer corresponding to at least one of the particular view and the at least one other view, wherein the at least two views are encoded based on a selection from among at least two of temporal, spatial, and signal to noise ratio scalability techniques, wherein said encoder is configured to constrain a spatial scaling factor to be equal to or less than one, when the spatial scalability technique is selected, and wherein said encoder is configured to encode at least some blocks in the base layer and the enhancement layer using inter-layer prediction, by setting the spatial scaling factor equal to 2 (−n) , n being an integer greater than zero, performing a many-to-one block mapping from the base layer to the enhancement layer, converting any of the at least some blocks in the base layer having an intra prediction mode to an inter-prediction mode, and forcing motion vectors and discrete cosine transform coefficients in the intra-prediction mode to be zero.