avc_picmanagement_draft1H.264 / AVC Frame and picture management Draft 1.0 Iain G Richardson Jan 04 iainrichardson@ieee.org 1 Introduction This document introduces the parameters and processes involved in managing coded frames within the H.264/AVC standard. This document is informative only and readers should refer to the standard for accurate definitions of the parameters and processes described here. A frame or field of video is decoded from an access unit (a series of NAL units including one or more coded slices making up a coded picture). The decoding order of access units is indicated by the parameter frame_num (section 2) and the display order is indicated by the parameter Picture Order Count (section 3). Decoded pictures may be marked as “used for reference” (section 4.1) in which case they are available……