FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: method comprises encoding information indicating reference images that can potentially be used for outer prediction of the current image and images following the current image in decoding sequence, the construction of the plurality of subsets of the reference images, where each one identifies zero or more reference images; adding the reference images to the first set of elements in the list of the reference images; determining whether the number of elements in the list of the reference images is equal to the maximum number of allowable elements in the list of the reference images, if not, multiple repeated adding of the reference images from the reference image subsets to the elements in the list of the reference images, that are after the first set of elements, the encoding of the current image based on the list of the reference images.
EFFECT: increased efficiency of encoding.
29 cl, 10 dwg
