h.264 profile

h.264 profile

Profiles The standard includes the following seven sets of capabilities, which are referred to as profiles, targeting specific classes of applications: Baseline Profile (BP): Primarily for lower-cost applications with limited computing resources, this profile is used widely in videoconferencing and mobile applications. Main Profile (MP): Originally intended as the mainstream consumer profile for broadcast and storage applications, the importance of this profile faded when the High profile was developed for those applications. Extended Profile (XP): Intended as the streaming video profile, this profile has relatively high compression capability and some extra tricks for robustness to data losses and server stream switching. High Profile (HiP): The primary profile for broadcast and disc storage applications, particularly for high-definition television applications (this is the profile adopted into HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, for example). High 10 Profile (Hi10P): Going beyond today's mainstream consumer product capabilities, this profile builds on top of the High Profile—adding support for up to 10 bits per sample of decoded picture precision. High 4:2:2 Profile (Hi422P): Primarily targeting professional applications that use interlaced video, this profile builds on top of the High 10 Profile—adding support for the 4:2:2 chroma subsampling format while using up to 10 bits per sample of decoded picture precision. High 4:4:4 Predictive Profile (Hi444PP): This profile builds on top of the High 4:2:2 Profile—supporting up to 4:4:4 chroma sampling, up to 14 bits per sample, and additionally supporting efficient lossless region coding and the coding of each picture as three separate color planes. In addition, the standard contains four additional all-Intra profiles, which are defined as simple subsets of other corresponding profiles. These are mostly for professional (e.g., camera and editing system) applications: High 10 Intra Profile: The High 10 Profile constrained to all-Intra use. High 4:2:2 Intra Profile: The High 4:2:2 Profile constrained to all-Intra use. High 4:4:4 Intra Profile: The High 4:4:4 Profile constrained to all-Intra use. CAVLC 4:4:4 Intra Profile: The High 4:4:4 Profile constrained to all-Intra use and to CAVLC entropy coding (i.e., not supporting CABAC). As a result of the Scalable Video Coding extension, the standard contains three additional scalable profiles, which are defined as a combination of the H.264/AVC profile for the base layer (2nd word in scalable profile name) and tools that achieve the scalable extension: Scalable Baseline Profile: Primarily targeting video conferencing, mobile, and surveillance applications, this profile builds on top of a constrained version of the H.264/AVC Baseline profile to which the base layer (a subset of the bitstream) must conform. For the scalability tools, a subset of the available tools is enabled. Scalable High Profile: Primarily targeting broadcast and streaming applications, this profile builds on top of the H.264/AVC High Profile to which the base layer must conform. Scalable High Intra Profile: Primarily targeting production applications, this profile is the Scalable High Profile constrained to all-Intra use.   Baseline Extended Main High High 10 High 4:2:2 High 4:4:4 Predictive I and P Slices Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes B Slices No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes SI and SP Slices No Yes No No No No No Multiple Reference Frames Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes In-Loop Deblocking Filter Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes CAVLC Entropy Coding Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes CABAC Entropy Coding No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO) Yes Yes No No No No No Arbitrary Slice Ordering (ASO) Yes Yes No No No No No Redundant Slices (RS) Yes Yes No No No No No Data Partitioning No Yes No No No No No Interlaced Coding (PicAFF, MBAFF) No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 4:2:0 Chroma Format Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Monochrome Video Format (4:0:0) No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes 4:2:2 Chroma Format No No No No No Yes Yes 4:4:4 Chroma Format No No No No No No Yes 8 Bit Sample Depth Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 9 and 10 Bit Sample Depth No No No No Yes Yes Yes 11 to 14 Bit Sample Depth No No No No No No Yes 8x8 vs. 4x4 Transform Adaptivity No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Quantization Scaling Matrices No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Separate Cb and Cr QP control No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Separate Color Plane Coding No No No No No No Yes Predictive Lossless Coding No No No No No No Yes   Baseline Extended Main High High 10 High 4:2:2 High 4:4:4 Predictive