AV2 reference decoder lacks spec conformance constraints
Bitstream conformance constraints written in the AV2 spec, such as OrderHint limits and level checks, are missing from the reference software.
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4 public reports · first reported 11 December 2025 · last reported 7 April 2026
What's going wrong
The AV2 video codec specification defines several bitstream conformance rules, such as limits on OrderHint values for long-term references, constraints on coded extended layers within a temporal unit, requirements for substream information in MSDO, and level checks.
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