ISO/IEC 13818-2 : 2000 (E)
6 ITU-T Rec. H.262 (2000 E)
3.103 progressive: The property of film frames where all the samples of the frame represent the same instances in
time.
3.104 quantisation matrix: A set of sixty-four 8-bit values used by the dequantiser.
3.105 quantised DCT coefficients: DCT coefficients before dequantisation. A variable length coded representation
of quantised DCT coefficients is transmitted as part of the coded video bitstream.
3.106 quantiser scale: A scale factor coded in the bitstream and used by the decoding process to scale the
dequantisation.
3.107 random access: The process of beginning to read and decode the coded bitstream at an arbitrary point.
3.108 reconstructed frame: A reconstructed frame consists of three rectangular matrices of 8-bit numbers
representing the luminance and two chrominance signals. A reconstructed frame is obtained by decoding a coded frame.
3.109 reconstructed picture: A reconstructed picture is obtained by decoding a coded picture. A reconstructed
picture is either a reconstructed frame (when decoding a frame picture), or one field of a reconstructed frame (when
decoding a field picture). If the coded picture is a field picture, then the reconstructed picture is the top field or the
bottom field of the reconstructed frame.
3.110 reference field: A reference field is one field of a reconstructed frame. Reference fields are used for forward
and backward prediction when P-pictures and B-pictures are decoded. Note that when field P-pictures are decoded,
prediction of the second field P-picture of a coded frame uses the first reconstructed field of the same coded frame as a
reference field.
3.111 reference frame: A reference frame is a reconstructed frame that was coded in the form of a coded I-frame or
a coded P-frame. Reference frames are used for forward and backward prediction when P-pictures and B-pictures are
decoded.
3.112 re-ordering delay: A delay in the decoding process that is caused by frame re-ordering.
3.113 reserved: The term "reserved" when used in the clauses defining the coded bitstream, indicates that the value
may be used in the future for ITU-T | ISO/IEC defined extensions.
3.114 sample aspect ratio (SAR): This specifies the relative distance between samples. It is defined (for the
purposes of ITU-T Rec. H.262 | ISO/IEC 13818-2), as the vertical displacement of the lines of luminance samples in a
frame divided by the horizontal displacement of the luminance samples. Thus, its units are (metres per line) ÷ (metres per
sample).
3.115 scalable hierarchy: Coded video data consisting of an ordered set of more than one video bitstream.
3.116 scalability: Scalability is the ability of a decoder to decode an ordered set of bitstreams to produce a
reconstructed sequence. Moreover, useful video is output when subsets are decoded. The minimum subset that can thus
be decoded is the first bitstream in the set which is called the base layer. Each of the other bitstreams in the set is called
an enhancement layer. When addressing a specific enhancement layer, "lower layer" refer to the bitstream which
precedes the enhancement layer.
3.117 side information: Information in the bitstream necessary for controlling the decoder.
3.118 16 ×
××
× 8 prediction: A prediction mode similar to field-based prediction but where the predicted block size is
16 × 8 luminance samples.
3.119 run: The number of zero coefficients preceding a non-zero coefficient, in the scan order. The absolute value of
the non-zero coefficient is called "level".
3.120 saturation: Limiting a value that exceeds a defined range by setting its value to the maximum or minimum of
the range as appropriate.
3.121 skipped macroblock: A macroblock for which no data is encoded.
3.122 slice: A consecutive series of macroblocks which are all located in the same horizontal row of macroblocks.
3.123 SNR scalability: A type of scalability where the enhancement layer(s) contain only coded refinement data for
the DCT coefficients of the lower layer.
3.124 source; input: Term used to describe the video material or some of its attributes before encoding.