Slice

Pictures are divided into slices.

A slice consists of an arbitrary number of successive macroblocks  (going left to right), but is typically an entire row of macroblocks.  A slice does not extend beyond one row.

The slice header carries address information that allows the Huffman decoder to resynchronize at slice boundaries.

MPEG 2 Video Data Structures Topics:

- PIXEL

- BLOCK

- MACROBLOCK

- Field DCT Coding and Frame DCT Coding

- SLICE

- PICTURE

- GROUP of PICTURES (GOP)

- SEQUENCE

- PACKETIZED ELEMENTARY STREAM

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