Summary

Amendment 6 to Recommendation ITU-T H.222.0 | ISO/IEC 13818-1 specifies additional signalling for the transport of bitstreams conforming to profiles defined in Annex H of Recommendation ITU-T H.264 (2010) | ISO/IEC 14496‑10:2010 over MPEG-2 transport streams as defined in Recommendation ITU-T H.222.0 (2006) | ISO/IEC 13818-1:2007 Amendment 4 (2009). This amendment 6 introduces the new MVC operation point descriptor and clarifies certain use cases defined in Recommendation ITU‑T H.222.0 (2006) | ISO/IEC 13818-1:2007 Amendment 4 (2009).

The MVC operation point descriptor includes signalling of stream characteristics needed to support additional use cases for MVC video defined in Recommendation ITU-T H.264 (2010) | ISO/IEC 14496‑10:2010.

This amendment also extends the AVC video descriptor to signal presence of frame packing SEI in the AVC video elementary stream.