Regarding Specification Text: The JD8 was submitted to JVT as JVT-AB204 on October 1, 2008. This was reported to be the final draft of the amendment text. There were a number of significant changes to all parts of the specification, including signaling of profile and levels, NAL unit semantics, syntax and semantics of sequence parameter set extension, MVC decoding process, sub-bitstream extraction process, level definitions and SEI messages. Relevant errata have also been accounted for in the final editing.
