In one aspect, a compressed video bit stream is received and divided into packets that comprise either video data or supplemental information. Each packet is marked with a first subset identifier associated with a corresponding bit stream subset. A first sequence parameter set (SPS) is marked with the same first subset identifier as its associated bit stream subset. The first SPS comprises a second subset identifier indicating a decoding dependency of the bit stream subset associated with the first subset identifier on a bit stream subset associated with the second subset identifier. In another aspect, the packets from the bit stream are received and the first SPS is extracted. The first and second subset identifiers are used as relevant subset identifiers, and for each received packet, the first subset identifier is inspected and the packet is extracted when the first subset identifier matches one of the relevant subset identifiers.