| CPC H04N 19/46 (2014.11) [H04N 19/44 (2014.11); H04N 19/70 (2014.11)] | 18 Claims |

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1. A method for processing a bitstream, comprising:
acquiring an encoded bitstream, wherein the encoded bitstream comprises encoding indication information, and the encoding indication information is used for indicating a bitstream type of the encoded bitstream;
acquiring the encoding indication information; and
decoding the encoded bitstream according to the encoding indication information;
wherein the encoding indication information comprises a supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message, and a bitstream corresponding to the bitstream type comprises a multilayer encoding bitstream.
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