In this paper, we propose a novel multiple description coding (MDC) method to enhance the robustness of video transmission over error-prone networks. The proposed MDC method provides benefits of both distributed video coding (DVC) and multiple description coding techniques, which can offer not only higher performance compared to the conventional MDC methods but also effective scheme for the error resilience. In the proposed MDC method, the input video sequence is split into odd and even group of pictures (GOPs) subsequences, which are independently encoded using the new H.265/High efficiency video coding (H.265/HEVC) based DVC technique. Though the codec itself is not the core novelty of this paper, our proposed codec is the first MDC codec in literature employing H.265/HEVC based DVC approaches, thus all results presented in this paper are new. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve a wide range of tradeoffs between coding efficiency and error resilience, and provide much better peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) performance than other conventional MDC methods.