The Joint Video Team (JVT) of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG are finalising a new standard for the coding (compression) of natural video images. The new standard [1,2] will be known as H.264 and also MPEG-4 Part 10, “Advanced Video Coding”. This document describes the methods of predicting intra-coded macroblocks in an H.264 CODEC.