[x264-devel] Re: H264 profiles and levels inquiry

Loren Merritt lorenm at u.washington.edu
Tue May 30 09:53:55 CEST 2006


On Tue, 30 May 2006, Nabeel Iqbal wrote:

> is there any restiction of levels with respect to profiles. in other 
> words Baseline profile includes and support all levels (from 1 to 5.1) 
> or restricted to some maximum level like baseline support only level 3 
> or less.

Levels and profiles are completely independent. Of course, any device that 
only supports baseline is probably also too slow to do the high levels. 
But that's for each device to determine, not part of the standard.

--Loren Merritt

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