The processing and usage of 3D graphics and video have been becoming very important and popular in many areas. At present, some of these areas seem to grow together. 3D television may become one result of this development. In this paper the ideas of the project “Interactive Audiovisual Application Systems IAVAS” will be presented and it will be explained how the project’s results can be one way getting content for 3D television. In the IAVAS project object based processing of audiovisual content is widely used. For this, the coding methods defined in MPEG-4 are explored and evaluated. Keywords 3D Television, MPEG-4, Interactive Applications