OBMC: Overlapped block motion compensation (e.g., as in H.263 Annex F).
OLS: Output layer set.
PCP: Parallelization of context processing.
PDAM: Proposed draft amendment – a draft text of an amendment to an international standard for the first formal ballot stage of the ISO/IEC approval process – corresponding to a CD for complete texts.
POC: Picture order count.
PoR: Plan of record.
PPS: Picture parameter set (as in AVC and HEVC).
QM: Quantization matrix (as in AVC and HEVC).
QP: Quantization parameter (as in AVC and HEVC, sometimes confused with quantization step size).
QT: Quadtree.
RA: Random access – a set of coding conditions designed to enable relatively-frequent random access points in the coded video data, with less emphasis on minimization of delay (contrast with LD).