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5.5.3Levels

Note: Potentially also consider J0225, J0335 hereare potentially relevant to this topic.

The J0558 BoG on parallelism is also relevant.

JCTVC-J0056 Additional level for coding high resolution pictures [K. Ugur, J. Lainema, M. Hannuksela (Nokia)]

This contribution proposes an additional level for HEVC, mostly suited to code very high resolution still pictures. The proposed level allows conforming HEVC decoders to be able to decode a still picture of size 40+ megapixels, which is supported e.g. by some digital still cameras and Nokia Pureview technology. In addition, the proposed level could also be utilized to code very high resolution video with aspect rations other than 16:9.

This contribution proposes a higher level than those currently specified, shown as level 6.3 in the table below.