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Profile@Level<br />

Samples/<br />

line (S AL)<br />

Concerning the distinction<br />

between luminance and luma,<br />

see Appendix A, on page 595.<br />

Lines/<br />

frame (L A)<br />

Frame rate,<br />

Hz<br />

Luma rate,<br />

samples/s<br />

Bitrate,<br />

Mb/s<br />

VBV size,<br />

bits<br />

422P@HL 1920 1088 60 62 668 800 300 47 185 920<br />

MP@HL 1920 1088 60 62 668 800 80 9 781 248<br />

MP@H-14 1440 1088 60 47 001 600 60 7 340 032<br />

422P@ML 720 608 60 11 059 200 50 9 437 184<br />

MP@ML 720 576 30 10 368 000 15 1 835 008<br />

MP@LL 352 288 30 3 041 280 4 475 136<br />

Table 40.2 MPEG-2 main and 4:2:2 profiles are summarized. MP@ML and MP@HL are shaded<br />

to emphasize their commercial significance. The DVD-video specification requires MP@ML<br />

compliance, and imposes additional constraints. ATSC standards for 720p, 1080p, and 1080i<br />

HDTV require MP@HL compliance, and impose additional constraints.<br />

Code Value<br />

0000 Forbidden<br />

0001 Square<br />

sampling<br />

0010 4:3<br />

0011 16:9<br />

0100 2.21:1<br />

0101 …<br />

1111<br />

Reserved<br />

Table 40.4 MPEG-2 aspect<br />

ratio information<br />

Picture structure<br />

Each frame in MPEG-2 is coded with a fixed number of<br />

columns (SAL, called horizontal size in MPEG) and rows<br />

(LA, called vertical size) of luma samples. Here I use the<br />

term luma; MPEG documents use luminance, but that<br />

term is technically incorrect in MPEG’s context.<br />

A frame in MPEG-2 has either square sampling, or 4:3,<br />

16:9, or 2.21:1 picture aspect ratio. (Strangely, MPEG<br />

writes aspect ratio as height:width.) Table 40.4<br />

presents MPEG-2’s aspect ratio information field. The<br />

2.21:1 value is not permitted in any defined profile.<br />

MPEG-2 accommodates both progressive and interlaced<br />

material. An image having S AL columns and L A<br />

rows of luma samples can be coded directly as a framestructured<br />

picture, as depicted at the left of Figure 40.1<br />

overleaf. In a frame-structured picture, all of the luma<br />

and chroma samples of a frame are taken to originate at<br />

the same time, and are intended for display at the same<br />

time. A flag progressive sequence asserts that<br />

a sequence contains only frame-structured pictures.<br />

Alternatively, a video frame (typically originated from an<br />

interlaced source) may be coded as a pair of field-structured<br />

pictures – a top-field picture and a bottom-field<br />

picture – each having S AL columns and L A/2 rows as<br />

CHAPTER 40 MPEG-2 VIDEO COMPRESSION 477

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