High Efficiency Video Coding tiers and levels: Difference between revisions

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The HEVC standard defines thirteen levels.<ref name=OverviewHEVCIEEE2012/><ref name=HEVCITURecommendationH265/> A level is a set of constraints for a bitstream.<ref name=OverviewHEVCIEEE2012/><ref name=HEVCITURecommendationH265/> For levels below level 4 only the Main tier is allowed.<ref name=OverviewHEVCIEEE2012/><ref name=HEVCITURecommendationH265/> A decoder that conforms to a given tier/level is required to be capable of decoding all bitstreams that are encoded for that tier/level and for all lower tiers/levels.<ref name=OverviewHEVCIEEE2012/><ref name=HEVCITURecommendationH265/>

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|+ Tiers and levels with maximum property values<ref name=HEVCITURecommendationH265/><ref name=HEVCJuly2014R1013>{{cite news |title=Draft high efficiency video coding (HEVC) version 2, combined format range extensions (RExt), scalability (SHVC), and multi-view (MV-HEVC) extensions |author=Jill Boyce |author2=Jianle Chen |author3=Ying Chen |author4=David Flynn |author5=Miska M. Hannuksela |author6=Matteo Naccari |author7=Chris Rosewarne |author8=Karl Sharman |author9=Joel Sole |author10=Gary J. Sullivan |author11=Teruhiko Suzuki |author12=Gerhard Tech |author13=Ye-Kui Wang |author14=Krzysztof Wegner |author15=Yan Ye |publisher=JCT-VC |url=http://phenix.it-sudparis.eu/jct/doc_end_user/current_document.php?id=9466 |date=2014-07-11 |accessdate=2014-07-11}}</ref>

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