Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable medium, for encoding, decoding, or
transcoding digital video are described. One example method of
video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a
bitstream of the video, wherein the
bitstream conforms to a sequence of sub-
bitstream extraction processes defined by a rule, the rule specifying that (a) the sequence of sub-bitstream extraction processes excludes an operation that removes all supplemental enhancement information (SEI)
network abstraction layer (NAL) units that satisfy a condition from an output bitstream, or (b) the sequence of sub-bitstream extraction processes includes an operation that replaces a parameter set with a replacement parameter set prior to removing the SEI NAL units from the output bitstream.