SMPTE RP 2047-1-2009

This recommended practice defines constraints on the VC-2 video compression specification to provide a mezzanine level compression coding. It defines coding constraints such that source video of 1920 x 1080 pixels using 4:2:2 sampling at 50, 60 and 60/1.001 frames per second can be compressed by a factor of approximately 2.5 to 1 resulting in a compressed bit-rate that permits carriage over a single-link SDI operating at 1.5 Gb/s.

This document defines a VC-2 bit-stream for video compressed according to this practice. It also defines an application specific level for VC-2 compression.